Example sentences of "get [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 2 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 3 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 4 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 5 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 6 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 7 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 8 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 9 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 10 | His new cap and goggles got hung up in the undergrowth ; he pulled , got hung up again , jerked savagely and emerged without them , his long hair falling down tangled and wet to his waist . |
| 11 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 12 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 13 | And there 's all those things got washed along in the river , they got stuck on the fence . |
| 14 | Now in my case , I have got buried away in the depths of here somewhere my tetanus vaccine card . |
| 15 | Having proved the value of a design-led business , Conran saw the logic of applying the same approach to other retail companies that had perhaps got left behind in the high-street revolution . |
| 16 | After watching a few people jumping and getting caught up in the excitement and atmosphere , I decided I would love to have a shot , much to the family 's amazement and Sandy 's amusement . |
| 17 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 18 | I was getting caught up in the rat race and thin round the edges spiritually , when the Lord stepped in and reminded me of a promise He made before we left Kent . |
| 19 | Into this stalks Zoltan Szanto ( Niels Arestrup ) , as a Hungarian conductor who believes the power of music should ease all the squabbles until he gets caught up in the soap opera himself , beginning an affair with the opera 's star Karin Anderson ( Glenn Close ) . |
| 20 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 21 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 22 | They too get caught up in the underworld of youth subcultures , where the peer groups become more important ( and possibly more caring ) than the family . |
| 23 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 24 | Anyone with a suspected heart condition or serious bleeding or a major fracture or head injury comes first , though , and every time an ambulance brings someone , they get seen immediately in the trolley area . ’ |
| 25 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 26 | Mother gets wrapped up in the kids and the poor old husband gets left on his ownio . ’ |
| 27 | The blood gets washed away in the morning so there 's no evidence to suggest a crime ever took place . |
| 28 | The problem here is , if , if , if , if , the , what 's , what 's happened is if , if that , if anything gets bought there in the practice , that then is taken out of our remunerations , so if we spend six hundred pounds on the stuff in the prac in , in , in the reception area |
| 29 | Yeah it 's no good getting bogged down in the detail . |
| 30 | It 's a strangely riveting spectacle , but just in case your eyes get poked out in the moshpit , they 've got a quite daring array of slightly goth-laced nagging pop tunes , pinned by means of twiddly guitar hooks and belting choruses to that corner of your brain which is exclusively reserved for tunes to whistle in the supermarket queue . |