Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 2 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
| 3 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 4 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 5 | Some thing like that with er the two kids that were mixed up at their birth . |
| 6 | than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ? |
| 7 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 8 | On the negative side it is difficult to see the advantage for Bergen Bank , which is getting mixed up with one of the most troublesome members of the already unfortunate Norwegian banking sector , where 1989 loss estimates of NKr1.6bn have been announced . |
| 9 | I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month . |
| 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 | ‘ He got it mixed up with Aunt Isabella 's ashes , that 's why I would n't take it . |
| 12 | But this all gets mixed up with motivation too : the horse must be motivated to learn . |
| 13 | Mixed up with magazines and newspapers were the proofs of a book she had translated , Eiger , Wall of Death . |
| 14 | ‘ Poor old Byron 's limp got mixed up with Richard 's hump . |
| 15 | The girl had not quite forgotten who she was , but had got her mixed up with her sister . |
| 16 | I told you getting mixed up with that boy was trouble . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Oops , somebody else 's card , got mixed up with mine , ’ says Brian Everthorpe , exchanging the card with another . |
| 19 | After all , a murderer and a rapist is n't the type of person anyone wants to get mixed up with … ’ |
| 20 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |
| 21 | We used to get mixed up with the fight . |
| 22 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 23 | Thought my erratic Course Work 'd see me through , or my papers 'd get mixed up with someone else 's who 's a genius . |
| 24 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 25 | She tried to recall his face , but got it mixed up with the actor , Edward James Olmos . |
| 26 | He assumes the identity of the dead man , apparently an undercover FBI agent , gets mixed up with an FBI sting operation AND a seductive mystery woman of independent means . |
| 27 | Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop . |
| 28 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 29 | If the surfaces were cleaned by sand blasting , that concrete dust would be mixed up with the sand used in the cleaning ; but when the surfaces are cleaned with dry ice , the pellets sublime away into easily filtered gas . |
| 30 | Jacques , you said this Rauff has been mixed up with the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti . |