Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Orc army under Gorfang Rotgut besieges Barak Varr and later joins up with Orc and Goblin tribes led by Morglum Necksnapper to attack Karak Azul . |
| 2 | Bacardi joins up with Grant |
| 3 | But this all gets mixed up with motivation too : the horse must be motivated to learn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | okay , do n't say blue , because otherwise you 'll get it mixed up with asphyxia |
| 6 | It 's an odd business and it seems to be mixed up with Edwin Garland 's will . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're mixed up with Ray , Ray 's my boss , I have to look out for him . |
| 8 | ‘ He got it mixed up with Aunt Isabella 's ashes , that 's why I would n't take it . |
| 9 | Mixed up with magazines and newspapers were the proofs of a book she had translated , Eiger , Wall of Death . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | How these nice girls get mixed up with punks I 'll never understand . |
| 15 | In Canaan , prostitution and fertility rites were all mixed up with worship . |
| 16 | ‘ Odd items of jewellery fall out of anything you happen to pick up ; photographs are mixed up with underclothes … |
| 17 | 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 ' . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've confirmed that Tolby was almost certainly mixed up with Devenish . |
| 19 | ‘ Poor old Byron 's limp got mixed up with Richard 's hump . |
| 20 | Erm It all gets mixed up of course because there 's , there 's there 's erm erm Russia which is seen as a power , you know the reactionary power . |
| 21 | The area around the crack should be thoroughly cleaned and the two-part resin filler applied after it has been mixed up in accordance with the instructions . |
| 22 | If Joshua 6 represents God as mixed up in humanity 's games of power and violence in a way that is denied by the Crucified God of the Gospels , 1 Samuel 4–6 , in both its tragedy and its comedy , would declare his refusal to play along with us on our terms , and his insistence on doing his own thing . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone told us she 'd got hold of the name of some MP who 's mixed up in child porn . |
| 24 | ‘ I think he 's probably a bit mixed up in matters of doctrine but he claims to be a ‘ true protestant ’ not , as he says , a Lutheran protestant . |
| 25 | So my profession , which has always been mixed up in politics , becomes an essential component of nationalism . |
| 26 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 27 | Bozo thinks he is gon na die , and the Trinidadian does n't want to get mixed up in murder . |
| 28 | Was he mixed up in cocaine smuggling ? |
| 29 | At 6 a.m. the mortar team started to drum up for breakfast . |
| 30 | Therefore , while absence may spell the end of acquaintanceship , it will not in itself destroy friendship ; and while Dr Johnson was right to say that we should keep our friendships in good repair , the perpetual shoring up of friendship might suggest that it were less enduring than we had supposed . |