Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 joins up with the Mill Avon . ’ |
| 3 | The Way actually joins up with the Cotswold Way at this point if you fancy a more epic walk . |
| 4 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , he got his face mixed up with the spokes of — |
| 8 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 9 | All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money . |
| 10 | Jacques , you said this Rauff has been mixed up with the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti . |
| 11 | However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes . |
| 12 | Mixed up with the mob |
| 13 | Now why those places should be funny , and we have to apologise to all the people who live there , but it does sound funny , and they er they just er the trials and tribulations they have when their own rather complex personal lives get mixed up with the play they 're doing . |
| 14 | We used to get mixed up with the fight . |
| 15 | In most minds that entertain thoughts on either subject , the SSC is mixed up with the idea of the Higgs particle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is gently mixed up with the compost and the worms get to work . |
| 18 | If a pulse follows too hard on the heels of its predecessor it gets mixed up with the echo of its predecessor returning from a distant target . |
| 19 | I I 've got mixed up with the names of the things . |
| 20 | Much of the controversy is actually mixed up with the nation 's political history . |
| 21 | I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month . |
| 22 | She tried to recall his face , but got it mixed up with the actor , Edward James Olmos . |
| 23 | Apricot glaze is used for securing icing and marzipan to basic cakes , and is useful as a barrier to prevent cake crumbs from being mixed up with the icing . |
| 24 | There , in the mouth of the stream where it meets the sea and its sweetness gets mixed up with the salt , a fisherman I used to know set his traps . |
| 25 | So there he was , caught in a trap of his own making — being nice to a woman he did n't like , and mean to one he did , and as mixed up as a schoolboy in short trousers . |
| 26 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 27 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 28 | But they 've got the bloody labels mixed up by the look of it . |
| 29 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 30 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |