Example sentences of "[vb pp] up with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this all gets mixed up with motivation too : the horse must be motivated to learn . |
| 2 | So there is some pattern in this spelling it 's awkward it 's not as trouble is English is mixed up with bits of all sort of other languages over hundreds of thousands of years . |
| 3 | okay , do n't say blue , because otherwise you 'll get it mixed up with asphyxia |
| 4 | It 's an odd business and it seems to be mixed up with Edwin Garland 's will . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're mixed up with Ray , Ray 's my boss , I have to look out for him . |
| 6 | ‘ He got it mixed up with Aunt Isabella 's ashes , that 's why I would n't take it . |
| 7 | Mixed up with magazines and newspapers were the proofs of a book she had translated , Eiger , Wall of Death . |
| 8 | How wonderful , I thought , if today 's humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar 's army in 54 BC , landing to take over the country ; be in burning Rome as Nero fiddled ; get involved in Europe 's tragic thirty years war , etc. , etc . |
| 9 | One is tempted to get mixed up with arguments about the Origins of life and the beginning of the main fossil record , of the mysterious " Lipalian Interval " that was once favoured and of great world-wide marine transgressions . |
| 10 | These features were then mixed up with features from the local cottages of Surrey and Sussex — the tiled roof , the tile-hung wall and the gable . |
| 11 | Because he had the freedom to hang around with anyone , it only seems natural that somewhere along the line he was going to get mixed up with people who were bad news . |
| 12 | How these nice girls get mixed up with punks I 'll never understand . |
| 13 | In Canaan , prostitution and fertility rites were all mixed up with worship . |
| 14 | ‘ Odd items of jewellery fall out of anything you happen to pick up ; photographs are mixed up with underclothes … |
| 15 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've confirmed that Tolby was almost certainly mixed up with Devenish . |
| 17 | ‘ Poor old Byron 's limp got mixed up with Richard 's hump . |
| 18 | We sat in one of those lounges that are part of a huge bar area and the windows were misted up with condensation ; when you rubbed them you still could n't see much because of all the rain dripping down outside . |
| 19 | They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger . |
| 20 | The broken windows had been boarded up with pieces of wood from the attic . |
| 21 | On the other hand , do n't let your working folder become cluttered up with papers you are not using . |
| 22 | If only it were n't so cluttered up with oil installations , it would be so lovely , for the glimpses of countryside through the pipelines hint at the kind of rural charm which is a real balm to salt-stained mariners in from the sea . |
| 23 | If your village is clogged up with fumes , your house is threatened with being sunk under a reservoir or your road vibrates to the tune of ten-ton lorries each night , you might have something to say about it . |
| 24 | Er er and it seems to me that the court should n't be clogged up with cases like this . |
| 25 | ‘ A broom might be useful if the wheels get clogged up with snow , ’ put in Uncle George . |
| 26 | Perhaps sending them direct to me will save the listserver from getting clogged up with train spotting messages . |
| 27 | The dossier , which said the town centre was clogged up with traffic , polluted by soot and plagued by accidents , was sent to the county council , DoT , and MPs . |
| 28 | The microcomputer firms foresee networks of micros taking over , and the minicomputer firms see networks of minis , while IBM has come up with Systems Application Architecture ( SAA ) , designed to maintain the mainframe 's iron grip on corporate data processing 's throat . |
| 29 | Trying to out-do the star-studded cast it assembled for last year 's Object World San Francisco , the Object Management Group has come up with Steve Jobs , NeXT Computer Inc chief executive ; Lee Reiswig , IBM Corp Personal Software Division president ; John Edwards , Novell Inc executive vice president ; Bud Tribble , NeXT co-founder and SunSoft Inc vice president User Systems ; Representative Edward Markey , chairman , the US House Telecommunication & Finance Committee ; Bo Hedfors , L M Ericsson Telefon AB chief technology officer ; Kurt Fischer , Pentagon director , Department of Defense Information and Elaine Bond , Chase Manhattan Bank vice-president . |
| 30 | ACE Communications Ltd has come up with Spidernet ( a name that may cause a few concerns for the Edinburgh-based Spider Systems Ltd ) a hub that supports both Token Ring and direct-attached coaxial and twinaxial connections . |