Example sentences of "were caught [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 2 | I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other . |
| 3 | Elderly people were caught up in a political , financial and staffing web in which services were run according to the needs of service providers , Harbert told the conference . |
| 4 | Young people were caught up in a whirlwind of activity with , to quote a social worker , ‘ the teachers and the physios and the medics arguing out who has this square inch of this kid 's time ’ . |
| 5 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 6 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 7 | Members of the Royal Marines orchestra , including some bandsmen who were caught up in the bombing , played during the hour-long service . |
| 8 | Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse . |
| 9 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 10 | Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement . |
| 11 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 12 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 13 | How many , I wonder , were caught up in the looting frenzy themselves and are now attempting to make amends ? |
| 14 | It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 . |
| 15 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 16 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 17 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 18 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 19 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 20 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |