Example sentences of "get [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 12 | And there 's all those things got washed along in the river , they got stuck on the fence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You said something — about getting caught up in the action — |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah it 's no good getting bogged down in the detail . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Records get knocked out in the studio hastily , emerge knock-kneed , spindly , pallid and monochrome . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's hope history sort of repeats itself , and we get promoted back in the year we come back home . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes , when an eruption takes place within a large crater , the lava ca n't flow away , and gets ponded up in the crater . |
| 25 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 26 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 27 | Even the Press box got swept up in the occasion and there were roars of approval from the local scribes when Craig Brewster opened the scoring in the first-half and Dalziel applied the coup de grace in the second . |
| 28 | One way or another , drama got left out in the cold . |
| 29 | ADO Thorpe said : ‘ It was an open lorry and he got thrown about in the back . |
| 30 | The swivel will turn with the bird 's movements , so that it does n't get caught up in the leash . |