Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 5 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 6 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 7 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 11 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 12 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 13 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 14 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pete got fed up with the slow roach sport and decided to switch to a spinner . |
| 17 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 18 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 19 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 20 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 21 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 22 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 23 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 24 | Horowitz nodded as he followed Hendrix out of the cabin , carrying the case he 'd picked up from the Frankfurt villa in one hand , his executive case in the other . |
| 25 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 26 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 27 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 28 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 29 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 30 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |