Example sentences of "caught up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 2 More fundamentally , however , defence of the established electoral system is caught up with a belief in the virtues of the Responsible Party Government model that we discussed in the Chapter 2 .
2 ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’
3 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 .
4 Or was he , like so many millions of others , caught up in a swell of mindless sentiment which hardly knew what it was doing ?
5 In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk .
6 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 .
7 It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her .
8 Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear .
9 Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain .
10 Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution .
11 Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of .
12 If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it .
13 South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation .
14 But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services .
15 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 .
16 She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment .
17 In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane .
18 From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work .
19 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 ’ .
20 Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy .
21 Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom .
22 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 .
23 As the title suggests , this is the tragedy of Thomas Fox ; the narrative draws out the disintegration , physical and mental , of an innocent boy caught up in a world of inexplicable rules and inescapable brutality .
24 It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects .
25 Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' .
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