Example sentences of "got [verb] 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 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Pete got fed up with the slow roach sport and decided to switch to a spinner . |
| 15 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 16 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 17 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 18 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 19 | ‘ I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’ |
| 20 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 22 | The boaters , 4 adults and 4 children were sailing on the River Severn , when they got swept up by the Severn bore . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 25 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 26 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 27 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It lasted until 1924 , when it got blown up during the Irish civil war . |
| 30 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |