Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , it had n't really been her fault that she became mixed up in Jack 's business affairs . |
| 2 | Gabriel reached out a hand , meaning to touch the man 's shoulder : his fingers got caught up in Garvey 's ear . |
| 3 | What happened instead was that Milton got caught up in politics and when the Civil War began he devoted his energy to pamphleteering . |
| 4 | But instead of returning to the trees and swinging happily ever after , the orangs got caught up in web of conservation politics . |
| 5 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 6 | She tried going around in dungarees to disguise things , but Mom did n't think they were ladylike . |
| 7 | He tried setting up in Geneva and Canada before ending up in San Diego . |
| 8 | ‘ But I ca n't be held responsible for — ’ she tried to argue — and got shot down in flames for her trouble . |
| 9 | Swindon ’ s hopes of an FA cup run came crashing down in London last night … |
| 10 | I seemed to go round in circles , and I am sure that that has happened to many hon. Members . |
| 11 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 12 | Another exciting window on the mind seemed to open up in Chicago in the 1950s when Nathaniel Kleitman and Bill Dement began using the techniques of electroencephalography to investigate sleep . |
| 13 | We 'd grown up in television together , learning from our mistakes , trying out new ideas . |
| 14 | I think , I 've heard about it erm one of the new clubs that 's , they 'd opened up in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Referee John Pearson was not impressed either but he waved play on and instead was intent on punishing a Leicester offside as they came piling round in search of the loose ball . |
| 16 | I thought I 'd woken up in Heaven . |
| 17 | He 'd pulled out in front of Gooch 's speeding car but was told he was not to blame for what followed . |
| 18 | And er with Michael I 'd gone out in Richard 's and bought mys , ever such a full raincoat when it was in fashion . |
| 19 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 20 | Why did he have to be so careless that he 'd ended up in prison ? |
| 21 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
| 22 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 23 | How great ideas like the Church got bogged down in bureaucracy . |
| 24 | he got called out in front of the school |
| 25 | Many of these cars had to be towed off by a tractor which , like our forward line , itself became bogged down in midfield . |
| 26 | The affair then became bogged down in argument and procedural wrangles before the European Court of Justice . |
| 27 | What should have been a routine exercise in extending the Government 's borrowing power to $3.1 thousand billion became bogged down in wrangling over legislative initiatives lawmakers wanted to attach to the bill . |
| 28 | That self-confidence had been acquired from the success of The Cocktail Party : it had opened in London in May 1950 , just a few months after the New York opening , and , although the audiences began to fall off in November , Sherek did not feel it necessary to close the play until February 1951 . |
| 29 | Outside their refuge the rain began to come down in earnest . |
| 30 | Then , just as Diana Lanchester detached herself and began heading back in Artemis 's direction , one of the huntsmen blew for hounds to move off , and the day began . |