Example sentences of "[vb pp] up with [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
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 told you getting mixed up with that boy was trouble . ’
4 ‘ And how 'd you get mixed up with that layabout ?
5 Books on Scottish History were mixed up with those on Volcanoes , and a particular book on World Leaders was often found in the ‘ SWAMPLIFE ’ section , between ‘ NEWTS ’ and ‘ WEEDS ’ .
6 ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ?
7 Although adults and good spellers can also get mixed up with these , especially when they are writing quickly , this confusion is often the sign of weak visual memory .
8 Mixed up with these , you 'll find the strap-like , grey-green fronds of Evernia prunastri , the so-called ‘ oak moss ’ .
9 If you boo has that been booted up with that in ?
10 What monstrous vanity makes them conclude the memory wants to be clogged up with this sort of rubbish ?
11 These guitars represent total design philosophies , not marketing exercises where a manufacturer or ad agency has tried to hoodwink us into believing the instrument really is different because its headstock is slightly more rounded than the Ibanez — or whatever other triviality they 've come up with that month .
12 I 'm glad there 's somebody 's come up with that one because that 's the only time that you say something a little bit different from the number itself .
13 And they 've come up with several suggestions .
14 Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust .
15 A FTER persuading the American singer Madonna to become a vice-president , those ageing adventurers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) have come up with another star for their letterhead — President Havel of Czechoslovakia .
16 ELITE , creators of those lovable cavemen Joe and Mac , have come up with another cartoon romp in the form of Dragon 's Lair on the SNES .
17 So — the magnitude of Maria 's feelings is given to us because Duras has come up with another jealous person , whose jealousy was great enough to provoke him to murder .
18 But now Seth ( the name rhymes with ‘ gate ’ and ‘ great ’ ) has come up with another offputting concept .
19 Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form .
20 The Royal Society has now come up with some concrete recommendations for broader-based science education and postponement of specialisation .
21 In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype .
22 ‘ Juval Aviv is a very astute investigator who has come up with some very plausible explanations , ’ he said .
23 I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman has come up with some further suggestions .
24 I know that many of you have already come up with some interesting ideas on seventy fifth theme .
25 Either way it should be helpful Now , interestingly people , more recently , and by that the late seventies and the eighties , have attempted to actually operationalise and measure the principles and they 've come up with some fairly ingen ingenious experimental designs to take tha to explore these avenues .
26 The 18 months that Del Amitri have been away from the spotlight have n't been wasted and they 've come up with some belting songs to prove it .
27 Now we , we do know that 's a problem , the police service know it 's a problem , and the Chief Constable 's come up with these er these performance targets , where he 's try he 's promising to the public that he 's going to endeavour to make sure that all police telephone calls are answered within certain time periods .
28 But Li Ka-shing , head of Cheung Kong , confirmed he is ‘ interested in some of Olympia 's assets , but has not come up with any solid plans ’ .
29 Perhaps I 'll be unpopular here , but in fact until you think of a way preventing vandals from vandalising the toilets , as you know , I do n't think there is , nobody has come up with any other way of doing it .
30 ‘ He had n't come up with any specific reason .
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