Example sentences of "[adv] caught [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is now wholly caught up in his own sufferings , in a new dichotomy , an agonizing split within himself : Although he rejects conscience as ‘ but a word that cowards use , /Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ’ ( 309f. ) , the duality between truth and lies proves too great for Richard to sustain . |
| 2 | The intrusiveness of attitudes like these is registered in Anne Bronte 's Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) , when the poor widow , Nancy Brown , feels badly caught out in a moment of negligence : |
| 3 | Except that I was all caught up in it , the romance and everything and the sunshine . |
| 4 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 5 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 6 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 7 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 8 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |
| 9 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 10 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 11 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 12 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 13 | She was so caught up in her own feelings that she failed to detect the danger in the question . |
| 14 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 15 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 16 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 17 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 18 | The questions tumbled from him as he went hand in hand with Beth , down the stairs and into the kitchen , where Peggy was soon caught up in the excitement . |
| 19 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 20 | Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web . |
| 21 | I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country . |
| 22 | Local governments are thus not just caught up in recent political conflicts as some innocent or neutral part of the political machine , but are themselves crucial in interpreting and promoting social change . |
| 23 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 24 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |
| 25 | Sunflowers have already caught on in France and now a handful of farmers are trying their luck with the new crop here . |
| 26 | But we have come full circle : by sliding from discussion of women as wives to a discussion of women as mothers and carers , we are once more caught up in the dilemmas about benefits for children outlined in the previous section . |
| 27 | The audience settled quickly after the interval and was soon once more caught up in the mounting dramatic tension of The Hooded Owl . |
| 28 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 29 | Whatever resentments he might feel , whatever threats he might have voiced against the star , the understudy was now totally caught up in his task , spacing the lines with total concentration , caught up in the communal will for the subterfuge to work . |
| 30 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |