Example sentences of "got [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 2 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 3 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 4 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 5 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 6 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 7 | They got fed up with that . |
| 8 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
| 9 | Nah , I got fed up with that . ’ |
| 10 | I was that for about , I soon got fed up with that job . |
| 11 | whatever so there was something to keep them occupied and erm you know have a bag and as soon as they got fed up with that right you 'd get something else out to take their interest and |
| 12 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 13 | Americans suddenly got fed up with all these Russians who were n't Nureyevs . |
| 14 | Our man got fed up with this nonsense . |
| 15 | So I got fed up with this . |
| 16 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |
| 17 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 18 | Because say Gail and Keith go got woken up at three o'clock in the morning |
| 19 | And got split up into different little workshops and dwellings . |
| 20 | It was er and when she got worked up about that Fancy Goods place |
| 21 | " Earth got blown up in that one too … ah " Graham kept snapping his fingers . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry I was late getting but I got held up by another lesson . |