Example sentences of "[vb pp] up in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he was certainly mixed up in the beastly business of getting into England some of those unhappy Asians who pay through the nose either because they 're desperate to join relatives , or because they think they can find work here . |
| 2 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 3 | The fire had been lit in the bedroom , and Senga was sitting curled up in the rocking chair beside the fire quietly reading aloud from the latest issue of the " Girls Own Paper . " |
| 4 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 5 | A theorist might suggest that the conspirators are principally , but not exclusively , Jewish : for example , there might be some Gentile Freemasons caught up in the conspiratorial network . |
| 6 | They will be used on humanitarian aid projects by UN High Commission for Refugees teams providing urgently-needed food , blankets and clothing to people caught up in the Balkan conflict . |
| 7 | Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume . |
| 8 | Everyone seemed to be caught up in the general euphoria except the bride . |
| 9 | So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear . |
| 10 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
| 11 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 12 | The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events . |
| 13 | Finally , by the time that the early group of tutors was appointed , there was a strong concern not to be caught up in the academic drift that , we felt , had tugged Ruskin away from its labour movement roots . |
| 14 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 17 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 18 | The atmosphere is bad and British sailors could get caught up in the bad feeling if they went ashore , ’ said the Ark Royal 's captain , John Brigstocke . |
| 19 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 24 | We pray for those who are caught up in the human side of the conflict ; for those in camps , held as hostage , deprived of their homes , taken away from their work . |
| 25 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 26 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 27 | Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press . |
| 28 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 29 | But verily , for that lawless coronation that she made , she shall be most firmly enclosed in a dwelling of stone and iron , made like a crown , and at Berwick be hung up in the open air , that she may be given , in life and after death , for a gazing-stock and an everlasting scorn to those who pass by . ’ |
| 30 | Heath had heeded official opinion , which argued that now too much policy-making was bottled up in the super ministry and too little was reaching Cabinet . |