Example sentences of "get caught [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape .
2 The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events .
3 ‘ One gets caught up in the old social whirl .
4 And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy .
5 Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's decision not to support the French proposal to fix the conference date in Strasbourg highlights his concern that the question of European monetary union and the inevitable transfer of powers from West Germany 's Bundesbank to the new European central bank would get caught up in the German general election next autumn .
6 The atmosphere is bad and British sailors could get caught up in the bad feeling if they went ashore , ’ said the Ark Royal 's captain , John Brigstocke .
7 I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it .
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