Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] caught [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country . |
| 2 | They were thoroughly caught up in the contest . |
| 3 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
| 4 | Large parts of the Suiheisha were subsequently caught up in the government 's clampdown on radicalism after the mid-1920s . |
| 5 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 8 | I asked several times but eventually was just caught up in the crowds . ’ |