Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered . |
| 2 | But her character became embroiled in one of the show 's least likely relationships — which kept viewers hooked and earned her an extended contract . |
| 3 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 4 | He also became embroiled in another conflict with Britain over Syria and Lebanon . |
| 5 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 6 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 7 | And it also served to draw stings : it ensured the main issue got cloaked in unimportant wranglings . |
| 8 | ‘ Miraculously they swept you round to Gullholm , where I must have found you minutes after you got caught in that inlet . ’ |
| 9 | West Ham 's Julian Dicks got booked in this skirmish . |
| 10 | Whether or not a family moved depended in large measure on the amount of land that they held and on the number of landholding branches . |
| 11 | The downfall of Gen Noriega can be traced to the brutal killing of the opposition leader , Hugo Spadafora , found beheaded in 1985 . |
| 12 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 13 | ( There was never any blood when people got shot in that film . |
| 14 | I got injured in this game as well . |
| 15 | No description of the ammonoids is complete without mentioning the heteromorphs These are forms which abandoned the usual plane spiral mode of coiling , and instead became partially or even completely uncoiled , or became twisted in some other fashion . |
| 16 | During the sharp decline in strike activity which accompanied the industrial downturn of 1899–1901 , worker-intelligentsia contact withered as the revolutionaries became absorbed in internal party bickering . |
| 17 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 18 | The umbrella group we 'd formed in 1987 had fallen into abeyance , but the name still meant something . |
| 19 | Juliet wished she 'd sat in some corner . |
| 20 | The method adopted differed in important ways from the earlier biographical approach discussed so far . |
| 21 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 22 | He told me I should be grateful as this was the first Sunday lunch-time down his local that he 'd missed in five years . |
| 23 | Now that the little spot of reality I 'd made in this mean city has been so lightly abandoned by those I 'd thought it would be safe with — but you wo n't catch me compromising with the lackeys . |
| 24 | Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one grey wetness … |
| 25 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 26 | The other score — of damage to sons , property and livestock — was never calculated , but the injuries sustained were not considered excessive , and everyone agreed that it was one of the best hurling matches they 'd seen in several years . |
| 27 | He could n't help thinking of something that she 'd said in all seriousness when they 'd left the apartment building behind and a lack of any interest from a passing night patrol on the motorway had told him that no , the police did n't seem to be keeping an active watch for his car ; she 'd looked at him and she 'd said , Promise me , Peter . |
| 28 | Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon . |
| 29 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 30 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |