Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 2 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 3 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 4 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 5 | And I even , you know , got stopped in the station itself before I started . |
| 6 | And I actually got stopped in the checks . |
| 7 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |
| 8 | ‘ I played in the 1987 cup final win against Wasps , but I do n't remember much about that game because I got concussed in the opening 10 minutes . |
| 9 | It 's running so high , and so fast , even a good swimmer might not be able to get out if he once got caught in the current . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A smalltime crook who got caught in the crossfire when I was working on a story a couple of years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ You just got caught in the crossfire . |
| 12 | Ants frequently got caught in the pine resins that were destined to become amber , and numerous fossil species have been recognized . |
| 13 | He was saying he was ‘ hard-faced ’ and cited an incident where his girlfriend got attacked in the ground and the man ‘ did n't want to know ’ . |
| 14 | As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there . |
| 15 | Unsurprisingly , she became caught in the wires , but her owner had seen what had happened , and immediately raced to the rescue . |
| 16 | The local authorities in the Samsun governorate claim that the recent deaths of over 200 dolphins were caused accidentally , when the mammals became caught in the fishing nets . |
| 17 | I got the job and the speech became included in the play itself . |
| 18 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 19 | They became trapped in the ice . |
| 20 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 21 | A radio/cassette player was taken and found smashed in the playground . |
| 22 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 23 | THREE generations of a family found murdered in the kitchen of a terraced house had been the victims of a horrendous and frenzied attack , police said yesterday . |
| 24 | But yeah , I mean , there was so so many inconsistencies on , on the Irish witness side , you know , like what , what matey said I was , I was running out and all of a sudden I felt a pain from here on those fuck it , he 's up there , got big forearms , and big sort of muscle that size , that 's really wasted this side even after twenty years , it must of about and apparently one matey got shot in the back running away , oh no five out of the thirteen got shot in the back , which again does n't fucking mean any thing , you know that 's , but I said if there 's I R A supporters there and that , you telling me you seen where your comrades have fucking get shot , you 're not , you 're not gon na try and pick up his weapon and stuff I mean like , it was just a perfect opportunity to , to get one over on the British Forces and I , I said I do n't think yet the para 's were entirely blameless , but then again I do n't think they ever have been in any of their fucking |
| 25 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 26 | The Party officials had their way and with the imminence of the Election the debate became subsumed in the drafting of the manifesto . |
| 27 | ‘ You know I got injured in the skirmishing ? |
| 28 | HONG KONG 's top try-scorer and inspiration , Stewart Brew , ( a top cricketer ) , got injured in the final against Namibia and boarded the flight back home on crutches . |
| 29 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 30 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |