Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Throughout his stay at Swindon , Macari became embroiled in a series of highly public incidents .
5 ‘ Nor do I want to indulge in a post-mortem — although I suppose it 's an appropriate description , if the thing between us is now dead . ’
6 Aston Villa winger Dwight Yorke admitted speeding in a 50mph zone on the A38 through Birmingham .
7 A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations .
8 He was willing to go to confirm in an emergency at very short notice and this earned him some long-lasting gratitude .
9 An Enfield clerical family took in a great-grandmother in her nineties for her last two years : ‘ she did n't want to go in a home and she wrote to my mother and asked if she could possibly look after her .
10 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 .
11 But he did n't want to sit in a pub , listening to the jollity and in-jokes of office workers .
12 Tobie made to sit in a chair and then desisted , because it was inlaid and foreign and breakable .
13 When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble .
14 ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’
15 Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory .
16 I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat .
17 I do n't know , I did n't really want to work in an office .
18 They got trapped in a hole , and no one could get near enough to get them out .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 I 'd prefer to work in a factory .
23 As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States .
24 ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said .
25 ‘ He was working one day , painting from nature , and got caught in a rainstorm .
26 But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again .
27 Starting twelfth , Hunt got caught in a battle with Tom Pryce and went off the track and into a sand trap .
28 That was n't the end of it : Ephraim did n't fall far , he got caught in a bush , but he saw the man who was trying to rescue him go all the way down . ’
29 Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out .
30 You 'll find in our newspapers many signs of a extraordinary mental instability leading to terrible deeds ( that theological student who killed a girl he had arranged to meet in a shed , and who was arrested a hour later eating his breakfast — and so on ) .
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