Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I am curled up in my bag I am totally content , warm and well fed , exhausted but not wanting to sleep for fear of missing these moments of happiness . |
| 2 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 3 | I am curled up in the armchair , flicking through a book . |
| 4 | ‘ The plain fact is , ’ Niki noted , ‘ that I am caught up in an insane series of setbacks which are oppressive in their consistency and which seem to … prey on my mind . |
| 5 | No matter that I 'm dressed up in my Sunday clothes . |
| 6 | My parents will go crazy if they find I 'm tied up in yet another messy murder . |
| 7 | If , for instance , you are pushed over in the playground , would it be all right to push the aggressor in return ? |
| 8 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 9 | BELVILLE : Let me see how you are come on in your writing . |
| 10 | ‘ But now that you 're tucked up in here , none of your mates will notice that you 're talking to us . |
| 11 | Things do tend to get out of proportion when you 're shut up in the mountains . |
| 12 | You 're flown down in helicopter to Leeds . |
| 13 | They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town . |
| 14 | A lot of the time you just shoot because you 're caught up in something then you see it published and you 're a bit embarrassed because in your heart you know what it was . |
| 15 | You 're wrapped up in yourself . |
| 16 | when you 're brought up in the war you see , waste not , want not |
| 17 | You 're tangled up in something which will probably end in humiliation . |
| 18 | But here the lyrical content is downright embarrassing , with ‘ White ’ ( ‘ We have forgotten our spiritual nature ‘ Cause we are wrapped up in too much shit/All day/All night ’ ) , ‘ Full Tilt ’ ( ‘ Gunfire ricochet off my halo . |
| 19 | It 's like a massive mind-fuck that we 're caught up in . |
| 20 | It 's like a massive mind-fuck that we 're caught up in . |
| 21 | Instead , they are bound up in the replication of previously set standards and routines which may actually frustrate the straightforward goal of simply getting housework done . |
| 22 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |
| 23 | They may bear grievances about the fact that they are locked up in prison , perhaps for longer than they feel they deserve or for longer than other offenders whom they regard as comparable . |
| 24 | So far we have been raising rather large issues in an abstracted and certainly general fashion which , it is to be hoped , will become clearer as they are filled out in what follows by way of the discussion of specific methods of data collection . |
| 25 | It becomes a colossal step to re-enter working life , even if they are wanted back in the labour market . |
| 26 | They are wanted back in the States for the ‘ voodoo murders ’ of the girl 's parents . |
| 27 | They are built up in tiers of well-rotted manure , grass clipping and annual weeds from the garden ; thin layers of pigeon droppings are then used as a compost activator . |
| 28 | they are airlifted out in a helicopter gunship |
| 29 | One-off dramatisations inevitably build around a central series of events which may be true to life in what they depict , but false in the way that time is telescoped ; in other words , they are played out in dramatic , not real time . |
| 30 | In this regard , I fully concur with the Commission 's assessments as they are set out in the reports for the hearings ( see paragraphs 49 and 50 of the report in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) , ante , pp. 299G — 300A , and paragraphs 21 and 22 of the report in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) ) . |