Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Immigration officials have allowed a twelve-year-old boy caught up in the war in Bosnia to enjoy a six-month holiday in England . |
| 4 | Immigration officials have allowed a twelve-year-old boy caught up in the war in Bosnia to enjoy a six-month holiday in England . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Labrador bounded up in the back seat , excited by familiar smells . |
| 10 | ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | A North-East woman caught up in the blast criticised British Rail for not acting quickly enough . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Legislation to tackle joyriding drawn up in the wake of last summer 's Tyneside riots comes into effect tomorrow . |
| 16 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Rayo , who is running lead for me today in harness with Kaisa , gets her leg caught up in the trace . |
| 19 | There 's a bed made up in the room across the landing from mine . |
| 20 | Paul lay in the sunlight curled up into a little ball , quite still , and Blyth was lying on his stomach , hands under his cheek , the stump of his left leg drawn up in the flowers and the grass , sticking out from his shorts like some monstrous erection . |
| 21 | And that night steals some milk and er sure enough it did come and then when the witch woken up in the morning and found out that somebody had been milking the cow she said er whoever stealing the milk will never work for six month . |
| 22 | The story taken up in the press was of the interminable controversies in which the Cambridge English faculty has been embroiled : Leavis , Steiner , Kermode , now Derrida . |
| 23 | Indeed , the examining doctor was a registered medical practitioner — a reservist called up in the course of the Gulf conflict . |
| 24 | Alongside their traditional functions ( which grow ever harder to explain to a public caught up in the excitement of recent developments ) , they offer a general reassurance against unpleasant surprises ; a brake on events which could otherwise outstrip our power to control them . |
| 25 | Volunteers from both east and west have been making mercy missions to the thousands of refugess caught up in the fighting . |
| 26 | The symbol for our inner life is ‘ the heart ’ , a symbol taken up in the Bible . |
| 27 | They see power as " structured " beyond and behind public participation in particular issues , and they point to another " face " of political power caught up in the fact that certain issues do not even get onto the public policy-making agenda for action and decision at all . |
| 28 | There was much criticism of the time taken up in the Commons by these devolution measures , and also of the careless drafting of two bills which were likely to produce a legal and constitutional nightmare if they ever took effect . |