Example sentences of "[adv] caught [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intrusiveness of attitudes like these is registered in Anne Bronte 's Agnes Grey ( 1847 ) , when the poor widow , Nancy Brown , feels badly caught out in a moment of negligence : |
| 2 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 3 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 4 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 5 | The questions tumbled from him as he went hand in hand with Beth , down the stairs and into the kitchen , where Peggy was soon caught up in the excitement . |
| 6 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 7 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 8 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |
| 9 | But we have come full circle : by sliding from discussion of women as wives to a discussion of women as mothers and carers , we are once more caught up in the dilemmas about benefits for children outlined in the previous section . |
| 10 | The experience comes very close to being mistakenly caught up in a lawnmower . |
| 11 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 12 | The last thing I want after the programme is to be still caught up in the atmosphere of the studio . |
| 13 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 14 | They were thoroughly caught up in the contest . |
| 15 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
| 16 | In Hong Kong , where there is a well-oiled storm warning machine piloted by the staff of the ancient Royal Observatory , the entire community becomes rather gaily caught up in the summertime ritual of typhoon watch . |
| 17 | When the large whisky-blending house of W. and G. Pattison collapsed fraudulently the following year he tried and failed to arrange a rescue package , but DCL did provide financial help to firms unwittingly caught up in the crash . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 20 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 21 | CICS/6000 is a good product , Data Logic argues , but falls down because it is now caught up in the world of IBM marketing strategy . |
| 22 | 1.30AM Caught up in the lawlessness , I fly through red lights and police cordons , feeling a sort of empowering exhilaration like that of the rioters . |
| 23 | ‘ As well as the mouse droppings there was a dead housefly caught up in the clothing . |
| 24 | The class is completely caught up in the action : toes and shoulders wriggling in sympathy . |
| 25 | Large parts of the Suiheisha were subsequently caught up in the government 's clampdown on radicalism after the mid-1920s . |
| 26 | The Great Western pioneered the idea but it never caught on in the rest of the country . |
| 27 | Standing beside Josh in the wings , she was barely aware of the play being acted out just a few feet away , too caught up in the playwright 's words to be aware of anything else . |