Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , from the toe , that was July , and I got paralysed up to my hips and er I had no relations or anybody there , but Toc H were very good . |
| 2 | Was I you , I 'd stay tucked up in bed . |
| 3 | The faint sound of his cello , as I lay tucked up in bed , is woven into my childhood memories . |
| 4 | ‘ Poor old Byron 's limp got mixed up with Richard 's hump . |
| 5 | ‘ Oops , somebody else 's card , got mixed up with mine , ’ says Brian Everthorpe , exchanging the card with another . |
| 6 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 7 | Oh , its a pity you ever got mixed up with him . |
| 8 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I got mixed up with . |
| 11 | It 's it just means we go like we got mixed up with our zero and we should have started lower down but we 're not going to change it now . |
| 12 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 13 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 14 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 15 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was out last night I got mixed up in something . |
| 17 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 18 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 19 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 20 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 21 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 22 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 23 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 24 | I when I went , you know when I went down , do you remember I told you that I got caught up with him ? |
| 25 | Nobody saw it happen , but I think most likely he was fighting and got caught up on something . |
| 26 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 27 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 28 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 29 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 30 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |