Example sentences of "[adv] caught [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 2 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 3 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 4 | The questions tumbled from him as he went hand in hand with Beth , down the stairs and into the kitchen , where Peggy was soon caught up in the excitement . |
| 5 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 6 | The last thing I want after the programme is to be still caught up in the atmosphere of the studio . |
| 7 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 8 | They were thoroughly caught up in the contest . |
| 9 | In Hong Kong , where there is a well-oiled storm warning machine piloted by the staff of the ancient Royal Observatory , the entire community becomes rather gaily caught up in the summertime ritual of typhoon watch . |
| 10 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 11 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 12 | CICS/6000 is a good product , Data Logic argues , but falls down because it is now caught up in the world of IBM marketing strategy . |
| 13 | 1.30AM Caught up in the lawlessness , I fly through red lights and police cordons , feeling a sort of empowering exhilaration like that of the rioters . |
| 14 | ‘ As well as the mouse droppings there was a dead housefly caught up in the clothing . |
| 15 | The class is completely caught up in the action : toes and shoulders wriggling in sympathy . |
| 16 | Large parts of the Suiheisha were subsequently caught up in the government 's clampdown on radicalism after the mid-1920s . |
| 17 | The Great Western pioneered the idea but it never caught on in the rest of the country . |
| 18 | Standing beside Josh in the wings , she was barely aware of the play being acted out just a few feet away , too caught up in the playwright 's words to be aware of anything else . |