Example sentences of "been caught [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon Trotsky protested with his dying breath that he had been shot , not stabbed , even though Stalin 's killer had been caught with the ice-pick still in his hand . |
| 2 | PUNDITS who advised the 2m shareholders of British Gas to sell their shares have been caught on the hop . |
| 3 | The Cameronians had been caught on the wire . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he sounded surprised and a bit worried — as if he 'd been caught on the hop . ’ |
| 5 | There was no sound of a human voice enquiring for his safety ; he shouted that he was safe , but gave up when he got no re-assuring reply ; he wondered if his friends had reached safety or had been caught under the falling rock . |
| 6 | In the stampede to get out of the building she had been caught under the flow of people , pushed to the ground and trapped , with a broken ankle , under heaps of clothes and stands . |
| 7 | However , as he posted his letter on Monday , he has been caught in the suspension trap , and it could be at least a month , before there is any prospect of seeing his money . |
| 8 | If an operation went wrong and resulted in a scandal because one of their agents had been caught in the act there was no one in Russia who would criticise . |
| 9 | Walking her round , Luke was reminded of his schoolfriend Spike , who 'd been caught in the locker room with another boy . |
| 10 | They have been caught in the crossfire of this particular Serbo-Croat war and have responded by fighting against the Serbs whose reservist soldiers in the Mostar barracks have behaved atrociously over the past six months . |
| 11 | I do not want to embarrass anyone or to moralise , but I feel that this is an area in which modern Christians have been caught in the net of secularisation without realising it . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been caught in the middle a bit , ’ explains Billy . |
| 13 | The lifeboat was scarcely controllable as she took heave head seas overall but once clear of the dangerous rocks James Douglas headed for St Abbs where one group of divers had been caught in the storm . |
| 14 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 15 | A red-breasted flycatcher had been caught in the Garden Heligoland trap . |
| 16 | Sycorax was lying in the common pit , alongside the cadavers of islanders who had also been caught in the fighting , and were awaiting return for burial under the terms of the peace . |
| 17 | Many Germans had been caught in the houses . |
| 18 | He had been caught in the spiral which made his contemporary Polybius the champion of Roman law and order . |
| 19 | He , too , in a more trivial way , seems to have been caught in the Greco-Roman spiral . |
| 20 | She had been caught in the South of France at the outbreak of war . |
| 21 | Most of them gave up right away , realising they had been caught in the jaws of a carefully laid trap . |
| 22 | So he must have been caught in the meantime and sent back . |
| 23 | But , as Wall 's and Mars battle to freeze each other out of the market , the local corner shop has been has been caught in the cross-fire . |
| 24 | But for those who 've been caught in the drugs trap … the campaign is out of touch with the real problem . |
| 25 | It had been caught in the most unlikely of places , not a country location but on the High Row in the centre of Darlington ! — Mr Ken Wood with a badger poster . |
| 26 | Face has been caught in the act using his master 's house a house as a brothel and er |
| 27 | Sir Kit 's work might even have succeeded if the Midland had not been caught by the recession . |
| 28 | For Newcastle , having built up a two-goal lead could have been caught by the Bees ' stirring comeback . |
| 29 | She too had been caught by the Nazis , I walked along beside her and the bears walked on each side of us . |
| 30 | In the conversation that followed , Fagin told the newcomer that Oliver had been caught by the police . |