Example sentences of "was [vb pp] up in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |
| 2 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 3 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 4 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 7 | Emily was curled up in a foetal position , naked , on the floor , sobbing . |
| 8 | The company was wound up in the High Court in February 1989 with tax debts of £35,520 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Each tape was made up in a random order with the constraint that no two junctions of the same type should appear in consecutive positions within any block . |
| 11 | Pool Bank has its own ghost , that of an unfortunate wife who was walled up in a small room and left to starve to death . |
| 12 | There were tears on the old man 's face and his mouth was drawn up in a silent parody of a grin . |
| 13 | On Christmas Day 1200 one of the most remarkable political statements in the history of medieval papacy and empire was drawn up in a secret consistory of the pope and cardinals . |
| 14 | Sahabzadi Qamar Sultan , born in the first year of the twentieth century , was wrapped up in an all-enveloping white salwar kameez . |
| 15 | More usually , the body was bound up in a folded position , with the knees under the chin . |
| 16 | The well-being of the community — largely composed of dairy-farmers — as a whole was bound up in the extensive municipal common lands , the existence of which not merely helped the poor but put a limit on the land hunger of the richer peasants . |
| 17 | Next day a joyrider who drove his dad 's car 31 blocks for an hour and a half was locked up in a psychiatric hospital . |
| 18 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 19 | According to the SD report itself , the main interest of the population in Hitler 's speech lay in his assessment of the military situation in the east , and the generalized response to the ‘ prophecy ’ passage was summed up in the single sentence quoted above . |
| 20 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 21 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 22 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 23 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 24 | Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s . |
| 25 | The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington . |
| 26 | Darlington Wildlife Trust is the latest branch of the Durham trust , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 27 | Ms Ela Robinson , who is in charge of the nursery class at Richmond CE School , is chairman of the National Campaign for Nursery Education , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 28 | The first , Organic Growers West Wales , was set up in the 1970s to facilitate the supply of produce to meet the growing demand from the supermarkets while supporting its members by guaranteeing markets and providing information on what crops are needed and what prices they will receive for them . |
| 29 | There are more than 12 million pictures cataloguing what must be every major news story since the agency was set up in the 30's . |
| 30 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |