Example sentences of "[verb] caught up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 2 | The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events . |
| 3 | It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " . |
| 4 | ‘ One gets caught up in the old social whirl . |
| 5 | Conversely , many players get caught up with the fashionable aspect and spend ages learning how to , say , play slap impressively , then get a gig with a band only to find that there is n't a context where it can be used . |
| 6 | If we had stayed longer we would have caught up with the three-day Dartington Conference on Building a Sustainable Future for Rural Britain , addressed by such luminaries in this field as Marion Shoard , Malcolm Moseley and David Lock . |
| 7 | And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy . |
| 8 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's decision not to support the French proposal to fix the conference date in Strasbourg highlights his concern that the question of European monetary union and the inevitable transfer of powers from West Germany 's Bundesbank to the new European central bank would get caught up in the German general election next autumn . |
| 9 | The atmosphere is bad and British sailors could get caught up in the bad feeling if they went ashore , ’ said the Ark Royal 's captain , John Brigstocke . |
| 10 | I was just far enough behind not to get caught up in the thick of it . |
| 11 | The Poles are une nation foutue who can only continue to serve a purpose until such time as Russia herself becomes caught up into the agrarian revolution . |
| 12 | Now , in an unbelievably four short years , they had caught up with the atomic bomb which alone guaranteed the security of the much-disarmed United States . |
| 13 | I had caught up with the advance guard of greenkeepers , and greeted the head greenkeeper , a fit-looking , lean man with a rather scholarly stoop and a trim grey beard . |
| 14 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |