Example sentences of "[been] catch in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 2 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 3 | Here , perhaps , green consumerism can try to get us to eat tuna that has been caught in a wildlife-friendly way ! |
| 4 | Government expenditure has been caught in a squeeze . |
| 5 | THOUSANDS of home owners have been caught in a painful new fixed-interest mortgage trap . |
| 6 | They are believed to have been caught in a storm without enough food or water . |
| 7 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 8 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 10 | He has been caught in a machine , or some part of a machine has suddenly broken , with fatal results . |
| 11 | At the same time rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't ever follow me again , Peter , ’ she said , totally unexpectedly ; she had n't even looked his way , and he felt as if he 'd been caught in a searchlight 's beam in the middle of some guilty act . |
| 13 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |
| 14 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 15 | The labelling of cans of tuna as " dolphin-friendly " should be discontinued , since no importer can be sure that the tuna has been caught in a way which has does not threaten dolphins , according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society ( WDCS ) . |
| 16 | As I say , you have been caught in a little trap ! |