Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 2 | Berger also recalled last year 's Mexico Grand Prix , in which he and Nigel Mansell became embroiled in a tremendous battle during the closing stages of the race . |
| 3 | It is noticeable that the Russell-Copleston debate became embroiled in a discussion of necessary propositions , a discussion made necessary by Copleston 's desire to show Russell that the world is such that it must be the case that it has a Creator . |
| 4 | Throughout his stay at Swindon , Macari became embroiled in a series of highly public incidents . |
| 5 | Thomas of Sandwich subsequently became mayor of Bordeaux in 1289 , and became embroiled in a dispute with the burgesses which led to an appeal to the Parlement of Paris ; his place as seneschal of Ponthieu was taken by Richard de Pevensey . |
| 6 | Although designed as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the party 's foundation , the conference immediately became embroiled in a bitter struggle over the election of the ALP president , a largely ceremonial position . |
| 7 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 8 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 9 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 10 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 11 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 12 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 13 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 14 | It seemed somehow deeper , as if its roots lay hidden in the past . |
| 15 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 16 | And I even , you know , got stopped in the station itself before I started . |
| 17 | And I actually got stopped in the checks . |
| 18 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 19 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 20 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 21 | They got trapped in a hole , and no one could get near enough to get them out . |
| 22 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 23 | The South Shropshire coroner , Tony Sibsey , said it would never be known whether the boys had watched the episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ when a young boy got trapped in a trunk trying to hide from his father . |
| 24 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 25 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |
| 26 | Yeah , I know , it was killed in the one where it got trapped in the . |
| 27 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 28 | He and Benjamin soon became immersed in a discussion on alchemy and the philosopher 's stone : the librarian also offered to take my master to see Narepool at the bottom of which , according to legend , Arthur 's Sword still lay . |
| 29 | It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation . |
| 30 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |