Example sentences of "[verb] caught up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover .
2 I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business .
3 I when I went , you know when I went down , do you remember I told you that I got caught up with him ?
4 Nobody saw it happen , but I think most likely he was fighting and got caught up on something .
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 But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics .
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 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 .
11 You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that .
12 Gabriel reached out a hand , meaning to touch the man 's shoulder : his fingers got caught up in Garvey 's ear .
13 ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust .
14 His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame .
15 They got caught up in fighting .
16 What happened instead was that Milton got caught up in politics and when the Civil War began he devoted his energy to pamphleteering .
17 A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt .
18 It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group .
19 In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane .
20 After the war the problem of gravitational collapse was largely forgotten as most scientists became caught up in what happens on the scale of the atom and its nucleus .
21 ‘ I see they 've caught up with him in Huddersfield , ’ Ma said , ‘ that prisoner . ’
22 Sadly Zephyr is no longer with us and old age has caught up on Razzle , but my new team do their best to continue in their pawprint .
23 Now , reality has caught up with illusion .
24 Columbia 's bloody past has caught up with its present with a vengeance .
25 System 10 may well help change that , but Sybase ca n't play the triggers now : everyone else , and even Oracle in System 10 , has caught up with such features now .
26 System 10 may well help change that , but Sybase ca n't play the triggers now : everyone else , even Oracle in Oracle7 , has caught up with such features now .
27 Chart 3 indicates that , as a result of the advertising , growth in Gold 90 balances in Scottish branches initially grew much faster , although , subsequent to the advertising campaign , growth in English and Welsh branches has caught up with the help of other communications , including the Personal Customer Newsletter and posters in branches supporting some magnificent local sales efforts .
28 REALITY has caught up with Lithuania .
29 Since assuming the captaincy , his own form has dramatically improved , but in India time has caught up with him .
30 ‘ My past has caught up with me , I was not fast enough in building my machine . ’
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