Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] up in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events . |
| 2 | It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " . |
| 3 | The other lamb 's getting tangled up in the other parts of that Russian vine 's gone over . |
| 4 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 5 | 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 . " |