Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 2 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 3 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 4 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 5 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 6 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 8 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 9 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 10 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 11 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 12 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 13 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 14 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 15 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 16 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 17 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 18 | While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House . |
| 19 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
| 20 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 21 | The author , an American journalist , has travelled widely in the Balkans , and has lived in Greece . |
| 22 | He describes a skylark 's nest which he found tucked away in a hoof print : ‘ Behind a clod/ how snug the nest/ is in a horse 's footing fixed/ of twitch and stubbles roughly dressed/ with roots and horsehair intermixed . ’ |
| 23 | And by the same token that clever little bistro Piers and Amanda found tucked away in a cellar behind Herne Hill tube station was definitely out . |
| 24 | As Dr Geoffrey Tresise , Keeper of Geology , Merseyside County Museum , has pointed out in a series of articles for the trade magazine Wine & Spirit , there is no physical or chemical property of Belemnite chalk which makes it either superior or inferior to Micraster for viticultural purposes and the grand cru towns of the northerly Montagne adequately demonstrate this . |
| 25 | Peter Daley of Waste Management International has pointed out in a lecture to Britain 's Royal Academy of Engineering that landfills , at the present rate of waste generation in Europe , use about two square metres of land per person per century . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out in the House that nearly 50 per cent . |
| 27 | Similarly , GDFCF has fallen substantially in the recession years of the late 198()s and early 1990s . |
| 28 | They 're referring , of course , to his brother Edgar , with whom he has collaborated often in the past . |
| 29 | Constance spent hours drawing imaginary clothes for the mannequins and , encouraged by Miss Hatherby and her mother , made them dresses out of scraps of old material Miss Hatherby managed to find tucked away in the corners of Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 30 | 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 . |