Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Ok , 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 the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 15 | A Constantinian milestone , found re-used in a late fourth-century foundation , indicates road-works in the area at that time . |
| 16 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 17 | But the best of the lot is the tiny chip of violet nail polish we found caught in a torn portion of the table-cloth . ’ |
| 18 | Faced with either crashing into the heavy gatepost or jumping the dark gaping ditch off far too short a stride , Hullabaloo tried to put in an extra stride and met the obstacle entirely wrong . |
| 19 | This identification was one factor which provoked a major attack on the practice of International Relations which helped usher in a new way of thinking about the subject . |
| 20 | He was allowed this in return for taking detention , which usually involved sitting in an empty classroom with Mafouz and the Husayn twins . |
| 21 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 22 | Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning en route to the Dardanelles where 25,000 Australian and New Zealand troops were killed , 76,000 were wounded and 13,000 reported missing in a bungled and mismanaged expedition against the Turks . |
| 23 | In antenatal diagnosis much effort is directed towards methods of analysing those few fetal cells found circulating in a pregnant woman 's peripheral blood . |
| 24 | According to a Rwandan radio report , the Republican Democratic Party ( MDR ) , the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party agreed to participate in a transitional government if certain commitments were incorporated in its brief . |
| 25 | Sri Lanka broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on April 20 , 1990 , announcing that it would restore them when Israel recognised the PLO , withdrew from the occupied territories and agreed to participate in an international peace conference . |
| 26 | Another splendid fellow was A.C.K. Kermode who taught " Theory of Flight " which seemed to embrace in a single formula , at least to me , the entire majesty of flight . |
| 27 | When the big wigs arrived , however , they were barely acknowledged by a dour receptionist , told to sit in a grubby waiting area strewn with cigarette ends and empty coffee cups , and kept waiting for half an hour without either apology or explanation . |
| 28 | Maxie Carlo came to work in a yellow plaid suit . |
| 29 | He drove to work in a bulletproof Mercedes 500SL , changing his route daily . |
| 30 | Ideology and all , can I cripple my five-year-old 's creativity at the appalling government school because I opted to work in a backward area ? |