Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't believe that anyone as nice as Angelica could have been mixed up in an insurance swindle . |
| 2 | Angelica had just mentioned that Steve was mixed up in an insurance swindle , and she was afraid that was why he had missed the train . |
| 3 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 4 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 5 | Her ankle boots she had picked up in an army surplus store , and were the most comfortable she had ever possessed . |
| 6 | Matilda happened to be curled up in an arm-chair in the corner , totally absorbed in a book . |
| 7 | She tried to pull away , but as she moved her head it brought her closer to his mouth , and when his lips touched hers she was lost , caught up in an explosion triggered by his touch . |
| 8 | Soon the family get unwittingly caught up in an attempt by an extreme IRA faction to blow up a limousine carrying one of the Royal family . |
| 9 | She and the photographer she works with are caught up in an investigation that shakes her out of her complacency — and into the shadowy world of covert operations against the dictatorship . |
| 10 | Every step is a chance to meet people , to give them the idea , the experience that can change their living and thinking ; to be caught up in an effort to bring a fundamental change to Rhodesia — and that means , of course , matching one 's own life to it . |
| 11 | It has been said by some writers that he had got caught up in an extravaganza far beyond both his intention and his control . |
| 12 | The only consolation was that a series of valuable recces had been carried out in an area they had not previously visited . |
| 13 | Whereas artificial insemination is a simple technique , which can be carried out in an outpatients department , or even at home , in vitro fertilization needs to be performed by highly skilled practitioners and requires sophisticated laboratory facilities . |
| 14 | A questionnaire survey of the beneficiaries who can be traced will be carried out in an attempt to answer some of these questions . |
| 15 | Experiments have therefore been carried out in an effort to examine this question in subjects with intact brains . |
| 16 | In its ideal form this is observation carried out in an environment which may or may not be a natural one , but even if it is natural a situation has been deliberately created and is observed unbeknownst to the actors . |
| 17 | When Otis Griffith 's car was written off in an accident , he was able to relax and let someone else fight his legal battle for compensation , thanks to a little preplanning |
| 18 | The Cessna 310 used by FLYER magazine was written off in an accident on landing in December . |
| 19 | It 's only 3 months since her car was written off in an accident on the A34 in Oxfordshire ; an accident in which she was lucky to escape with her life . |
| 20 | Daughter of a Spanish nobleman who had been an officer in the army of Napoleon I , and who had also held a post as Court Chamberlain , Eugénie had grown up in an atmosphere which was hopeful of , and sympathetic to , a Bonapartist restoration , her father having always remained faithful to the Bonaparte dynasty . |
| 21 | She 's grown up in an atmosphere of decadence and disgustingness where her mother 's with her uncle and her uncle 's this lech , and people are being beheaded and crucified and tortured and murdered all around her . ’ |
| 22 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 23 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 24 | What if that got tangled up in an aeroplane passing ? |
| 25 | In 1622 the American settlement was almost wiped out in an attack by Indians . |
| 26 | But he wanted to make it clear that he was there to be called on in an emergency . |
| 27 | If that happened , or you started to get bogged down in an episode , you could always use the Doctor as a diversion . |
| 28 | ‘ It will also free taxpayers ’ money from being unnecessarily tied up in an asset which has the prospect of becoming more profitable under privatisation ’ . |
| 29 | Knowledge about the particular problems exercising his colleagues has a practical importance if , as sometimes happens , an officer is called out in an emergency to a pollution in another man 's patch . |
| 30 | This was most famously pointed out in an article by David Singer , ‘ The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations ’ , published in 1961 . |