Example sentences of "i [be] caught " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am caught , I can easily plead an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 3 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 4 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 5 | If I 'm caught , I 'll say I was lifting her for myself . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm caught in the cross-fire between on one side the US which wants to export computers , the motor and textile industries which complain they can not modernise and thus compete without a change in the law , and on the other side the Brazilian computer industry which argues we are leading them into bankruptcy . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm caught between a pig and a poke , blast it . |
| 8 | I 'm caught you know betwixt and between , which do I like the best . |
| 9 | " Damn , " I thought , " I 'm caught up . " |
| 10 | I do n't want the benefits I want a job but I 'm caught in a trap . ’ |
| 11 | Went I 'm caught in the moment . |
| 12 | I was very lucky I was caught . |
| 13 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 14 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 15 | I was caught like a rat in a trap in my lodgings . |
| 16 | I ran sluggishly and on the line I was caught by the East German Olaf Prenzler , the defending champion , shunted back to fifth place and out of the final . |
| 17 | I just wanted a reason for having been out , in case I was caught coming back . ’ |
| 18 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I was caught dancing with the wrong girl at a party . |
| 20 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 21 | I had a dream at this time that I was caught by the Nazis . |
| 22 | I was caught on the square-leg boundary for … 96 . |
| 23 | It was an AIDS benefit and I was caught in a private moment . |
| 24 | But instead of crashing to the ground , I was caught , by my trousers , on a pin in her clothes . |
| 25 | So I was caught with these milk tokens . |
| 26 | But the first try was a shambles , and I was caught . ’ |
| 27 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 28 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
| 29 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 30 | I was caught and summoned to the Latin master , who said to me , ’ Walker , you did n't turn up for the Latin exam . ’ |