Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 5 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
| 6 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 7 | ‘ I may be old-fashioned , ’ Alec sighed , ‘ but I hate experimenting in a lonely spot like this . ’ |
| 8 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 9 | Mm we expected to perform in a professional way , particularly after incidents like last week when we had an horrendous twenty four hours and we do n't get paid for it |
| 10 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 11 | ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage … |
| 12 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 13 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |
| 14 | As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund . |
| 15 | Q : I think that is because people see it as an act of desperation when an actress agrees to appear in a nude magazine like Playboy . |
| 16 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 17 | This raises the possibility that OS/2 — and , with it , IBM 's partnership with Microsoft — will get caught in a vicious circle , much like DOS got caught in a virtuous one . |
| 18 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 19 | Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell . |
| 20 | As thousands of troops and vehicles , many loaded with looted goods , struggled north on the main road to Basra , they became caught in a congested and disorganized column many kilometres in length , and were subjected to hours of ruthless attack from the air with cluster bombs and , possibly , incendiary weapons . |
| 21 | In Gever 's Application [ 1970 ] , data processing apparatus was arranged to work in a certain way associated with punched cards inserted into it . |
| 22 | The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it . |
| 23 | Curran has argued that advertising pressures have ‘ helped to ensure that it ( the Left press ) has developed in a depoliticised , deradicalised and disabled form ’ : advertising patronage curtails the radical tendencies of the left press . |
| 24 | This would appear to be a higher standard than that required in the United Kingdom where copyright law has developed in a pragmatic rather than principled manner . |
| 25 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 26 | It 's important to achieve a non-confrontation setting — with refreshments available , seating arranged in a circular pattern so as to avoid grouping staff and governors in a defensive posture behind a line of tables , or even worse , sheltering on the school stage . |
| 27 | WHY are you less likely to get caught speeding in a black car and most likely in a red one ? |
| 28 | By impacting with neighbouring particles they vibrate about a locus , and only appear to remain in a fixed position . |
| 29 | The broad Firth of Clyde runs north from the island , with Goat Fell on the east shore appearing to fall in a sheer drop into the sea , making ideal conditions for commando training . |
| 30 | This , this poem 's called Dancing Feet Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet erm and , if you , if you take , were oops trying to pay particular attention to , if you can see the geese in , in this one here , there 's a fate , there 's a , there 's a forfeit which is missing , what 's going on and er , and the reason well in fact er which , which was er very much a vocal point for me in , in that painting |