Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 2 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 3 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 4 | Women in Hinduism are caught up in a paradoxical view of the female , where the divine can be feminine , yet women are profoundly mistrusted . |
| 5 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 6 | They are mopping up in a southerly direction . |
| 7 | The way in which these circuits are built up in a structured way out of interacting modules and submodules corresponds well to the use of nested parallel constructs in occam . |
| 8 | But remember that they 're tucked up in a nice warm greenhouse and it can be pretty chilly outside . |
| 9 | The one person whom Kate had always seen as constant and good had been shown up in a dark light . |
| 10 | She would have been locked up in a mental hospital , or alternatively taken off for parapsychological testing and Rachel would have been unforgiving . |
| 11 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 've been brought up in a good school these last few years , do n't you think ? |
| 13 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 14 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 15 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 16 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 17 | Younger people have been brought up in a different way from the way our parents and grandparents were . |
| 18 | She 's just a chit , and a knowin' one at that , who 's been brought up in a different atmosphere . |
| 19 | The letters are pinned up in a big main post office and generous people send the presents . |
| 20 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 21 | Then , as he opened the door , she 'd be picked up in a big hug . |
| 22 | I want to arrange for my body to be closed up in a transparent plastic parallelepiped ’ . |
| 23 | More serious offences such as being drunk and disorderly or damaging property , labelled him as REFRACTORY , and he could then be locked up in a separate room with bread and water for twenty-four hours . |
| 24 | Up to 21,000 reservists would be called up in a countrywide security crackdown , he said . |
| 25 | It was clear that the free-enterprise ( indeed , Thatcherite ) peoples of Hong Kong were likely to be swallowed up in a huge Marxist empire of uncertain direction . |
| 26 | Perhaps their attitude can be summed up in a nice little phrase from one of Dally 's patients : ‘ The pleasures of eating are fleeting , but the pleasures of fasting are lasting . ’ |
| 27 | In the long term , there has been a gradual but clearly identifiable change in the attitude of British business since the Second World War , which may be summed up in a single word : management . |
| 28 | No links need be set up in a relational database between relations . |
| 29 | Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group . |
| 30 | The issue is to be taken up in a joint approach to the Welsh Office . |