Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children , trapped in the car of an innocent driver caught up in the crash . |
| 2 | The captain has the responsibility of having the report of the shoot , the names of the people who entered , minutes of their AGM and the prizewinners written up in the records . |
| 3 | The founding fathers of capitalist enterprise in south-western Germany were not always rich , but the number of those with long family experience in business , and often in the industries they were to develop , is significant : Swiss-Alsatian Protestants like the Koechlin , Geigy or Sarrasin , Jews grown up in the finance of small princelings , rather than technically innovating craftsmen-entrepreneurs . |
| 4 | Saddam , a polished television performer , made considerable use of the medium for propaganda purposes , as when he conducted a conversation on camera with a British child caught up in the war who now found himself a ‘ guest ’ of the Iraqi regime . |
| 5 | Immigration officials have allowed a twelve-year-old boy caught up in the war in Bosnia to enjoy a six-month holiday in England . |
| 6 | Immigration officials have allowed a twelve-year-old boy caught up in the war in Bosnia to enjoy a six-month holiday in England . |
| 7 | I remember the scandal surrounding her in the Seventies , when she appeared to be just a naive young girl caught up in the trappings of fame . |
| 8 | Such sharks caught up in the net of pressganging were generally ideal raw material for the Guard . |
| 9 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 10 | ‘ So , late on the Sunday night , with your father 's body propped up in the Rolls , you drive to Streatley , move a few boxes out of the deep-freeze and put your father in . |
| 11 | BRITISH Aerospace , currently involved in extensive rationalisation , was on the acquisition trail yesterday with its Royal Ordnance subsidiary reaching an agreement to buy an offshoot of the failed Astra Holdings company , the business caught up in the Iraq supergun affair . |
| 12 | The row has brought many French roads to a standstill — and hit the pockets of British Hauliers caught up in the jams . |
| 13 | Those assurances had been demolished by the revelations thrown up in the collapse of the Matrix Churchill trial , said Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown . |
| 14 | The Labrador bounded up in the back seat , excited by familiar smells . |
| 15 | ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’ |
| 16 | Death Wish II ( 1981 ) , Thames , TVS , 10.40pm Nothing succeeds like excess , it seems , as Charles Bronson reprises his thriller role as the vigilante architect caught up in the horror and violence of rape and murder . |
| 17 | MORE than 600 of the original 18,000 investors caught up in the collapse of the Barlow Clowes investment empire have died during the 18 month-long battle to secure compensation , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 18 | Are there problems caught up in the case for change ? |
| 19 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 20 | Opinions on a whole range of theoretical issues were polarized in ways that can be related to positions taken up in the struggle for control of the social framework of science . |
| 21 | A North-East woman caught up in the blast criticised British Rail for not acting quickly enough . |
| 22 | His appeal came as another father caught up in the Warrington bomb tragedy said he felt the whole country was urging his son , the critically injured 12-year-old Timothy Parry , to survive . |
| 23 | Legislation to tackle joyriding drawn up in the wake of last summer 's Tyneside riots comes into effect tomorrow . |
| 24 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 25 | Community leaders decided to build homes for rent to help young people brought up in the village stay in the area . |
| 26 | The Central North Side as a whole was , by the 1980s , represented by the Central North Side Neighborhood Council ( CNSNC ) but there was evidence of tension between the young people brought up in the area for whom there were slim prospects of employment ( levels of unemployment consistently outstripped the city average ) and householders involved in revitalisation . |
| 27 | It 's a fascinating project , because you 've also got all sorts of memorabilia lined up in the library . |
| 28 | Nazism fed on the dark myths of racial purity and xenophobia dressed up in the glories of a supposedly great history and an invented Nordic heritage ( Walker 1969 ) . |
| 29 | Use scraps of soap , liquid soap or soap flakes shaken up in the water to make bubbles . |
| 30 | Rayo , who is running lead for me today in harness with Kaisa , gets her leg caught up in the trace . |