Example sentences of "[pn reflx] caught up " in BNC.

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1 Before long Max finds himself caught up in a highly dangerous situation , where no-one is quite what they seem .
2 and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom .
3 In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America .
4 Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’
5 Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume .
6 Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country .
7 Poitier plays a homicide cop from a big city who inadvertently finds himself caught up in a murder investigation in the town where he is staying .
8 Sandy Scratchley 's patrol was sent out to raid petrol dumps in the El Daba area and found itself caught up in the back yard of the retreating Germans .
9 Marie felt herself caught up in the intensity of the old woman 's hatred .
10 As the day of the wedding drew closer , the young Campbell lass found herself caught up in the arrangements .
11 She found herself caught up in an intensely speculative gaze .
12 When Webern conducted student concerts I often found myself caught up in the riots .
13 Just when you think you 're in for an in-depth discussion on the technicalities of the Joey Beltram mix of state-of-the-art frightcore Techno duo MESSIAH 's last single , you find yourself caught up in a debate about doom and dwarf procuring and rock 'n' roll giants .
14 There are over 2,300 inmates on America 's death rows : all have found themselves caught up in the nightmare that is the US capital law system .
15 The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation .
16 They could n't be allowed to do this , because they were still attached to the creance and might get themselves caught up round the perch .
17 At the same time , they will find themselves caught up in moves to develop new organizational procedures , new teaching situations and new assessment techniques , many of which , such as one-to-one dialogue and negotiation with pupils , they will have had little or no experience of .
18 If support teaching gets under way , therefore , without adequate preparation , then support teachers may find themselves caught up in any of the following situations :
19 Reactionary trade union officials who had steadfastly declared that they would not stand on a public platform with revolutionary workers , found themselves caught up in the stream and carried forward to participation in great united front unemployed demonstrations .
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