Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 2 | Did George suggest you got me mixed up in all this ? ’ |
| 3 | Is your memory completely addled , or am I caught up in the middle of a prize piece of double-dealing ? ’ |
| 4 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 5 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 6 | I was amazed that someone brought up in nineteenth-century Yorkshire could understand so completely the deprivation and frustration of being a hostage . |
| 7 | We 're gon na get em trained up in the garages before we actually launch , but they are able now to say they are approved installers so they will be getting all the stuff , everything in relation to it , I 've given em a list of the people involved in Nottinghamshire and it 's the launch is on the seventh March at West Bridgford , and basically the system is ready and up and running , thank the Lord after hard work by er Keith and us all at various times , but it 's been mainly down to Keith . |
| 8 | I said , well , what I 'm ringing about is am I allowed back in there or am I barred ? |
| 9 | Well I 'm I went back in and it 's come out gleaming . |
| 10 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 11 | The names were vaguely familiar ; he fancied he had seen them written up in gold lettering upon an office window in Stepney . |
| 12 | Before long Max finds himself caught up in a highly dangerous situation , where no-one is quite what they seem . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Has somebody started up in business ? |
| 20 | Are we going to have er , erm , are we going to have some kind of reporting system , so that if a hunt actually enters erm , one of our fields , we 're going to start denouncing tenants and have them hauled up in front of a disciplinary committee ? . |
| 21 | ‘ Now let's get you formed up in columns of three . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The work they do is itself carried out in dangerous and dingy back regions . |
| 24 | Were you mixed up in that party ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If you go round saying that they 'll have you locked up in a padded cell . ’ |
| 26 | Why were you locked up in there ? |
| 27 | She has n't got you locked up in a room with a naked light bulb . |
| 28 | Q : Were you brought up in any particular religious or political persuasion ? |
| 29 | Why then had she ended up in such a mess ? |
| 30 | Although Godfrey J. correctly concluded that the operation of the taxpayer which generated the taxable profits was one carried on in Hong Kong he went too far in saying that a taxpayer must establish the existence of a profit-generating operation outside Hong Kong if he is to escape a charge to tax under section 14 . |