Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 2 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 3 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 4 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 5 | Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown , aged 37 . |
| 6 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 7 | And I even , you know , got stopped in the station itself before I started . |
| 8 | And I actually got stopped in the checks . |
| 9 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 10 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 11 | He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt . |
| 12 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 13 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 14 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |
| 15 | Yeah , I know , it was killed in the one where it got trapped in the . |
| 16 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 17 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 18 | It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation . |
| 19 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 20 | Eventually Hayling agreed to appear in the prospectus confirmed as chief executive until the launch . |
| 21 | The curtains failed to meet in the middle , revealing a section of the room beyond : a high , narrow bed flanked by a massive wardrobe in dark , stained oak ; a large crucifix with an unusually lifelike Christ hanging on the wall . |
| 22 | Ants frequently got caught in the pine resins that were destined to become amber , and numerous fossil species have been recognized . |
| 23 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 24 | It 's running so high , and so fast , even a good swimmer might not be able to get out if he once got caught in the current . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You just got caught in the crossfire . |
| 26 | He was saying he was ‘ hard-faced ’ and cited an incident where his girlfriend got attacked in the ground and the man ‘ did n't want to know ’ . |
| 27 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
| 28 | Unsurprisingly , she became caught in the wires , but her owner had seen what had happened , and immediately raced to the rescue . |
| 29 | As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there . |
| 30 | The local authorities in the Samsun governorate claim that the recent deaths of over 200 dolphins were caused accidentally , when the mammals became caught in the fishing nets . |