Example sentences of "got [verb] up in the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl .
3 It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’
4 We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape .
5 His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that .
9 His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame .
10 His new cap and goggles got hung up in the undergrowth ; he pulled , got hung up again , jerked savagely and emerged without them , his long hair falling down tangled and wet to his waist .
11 He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic .
12 Even the Press box got swept up in the occasion and there were roars of approval from the local scribes when Craig Brewster opened the scoring in the first-half and Dalziel applied the coup de grace in the second .
13 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
14 Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and
15 So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive .
16 After subsidizing the Postal Department for 43 years , her last 29 cent instalment that carried news that she was confirming the trip got held up in the mail office because , and I 'm not joking , George Bush had flown all the way from Disneyland to have his picture taken in front of the Grand Canyon .
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