Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 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 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 4 | He became absorbed in the task , grumbling at the stiffness of the holding screws . |
| 5 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 6 | With Wilfred Rhodes [ q.v. ] ever-present in the Yorkshire XI , Verity played league cricket for Rawdon , Accrington , and Middleton before he became established in the Yorkshire team in 1930 . |
| 7 | His friend Max Jacob was just about to be received into the Catholic church when he became entangled in the affairs of Modi and Beatrice . |
| 8 | The start of the last play was delayed as ‘ Jesus ’ had elected to travel in his own car rather than on the lorry , and he became entangled in the mysteries of the town 's traffic system . |
| 9 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 10 | In response the Syrian-based Seljuk dynasty fought back , especially through the exploits of the Kurd Salah al-Din ( Saladdin as he became known in the West ) who himself took Egypt establishing his own Ayyubid dynasty in 1171 . |
| 11 | Even though his period in Calcutta was extremely brief , for he was forced to retire in 1906 after a breakdown , he became celebrated in the West and in India for ‘ preaching ’ the greatness of Indian art with fervour that bordered on fanaticism . |
| 12 | M. He got killed in a car-crash before the war . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 14 | I mean people were dying , men were dying , my brother died , he got killed in the War , pe every day you went to work and somebody would tell you , So and so 's died , you remember so and so , he 's died . |
| 15 | He got kicked in the head by his own player Mike Whitlow there but I do n't think he 'll mind because er it all contributed to the goal . |
| 16 | Paula Rojas , 18 , was ordered into a room while he got dressed in a green shirt and blue nylon jogging pants — the clothes he was found dead in . |
| 17 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 18 | There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear . |
| 19 | Like many , he got known in the UK through the Virgin ‘ Techno ’ compilations but , when he came to Britain with Inner City 's ‘ Big Fun ’ tour , his career and personal life nose-dived when Blake discovered he was epileptic . |
| 20 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 21 | ‘ He got hurt in a car crash , other side of Oxford , ’ volunteered Percy . |
| 22 | He got hurt in an accident . |
| 23 | I think he got punched in the head . |
| 24 | That was n't the end of it : Ephraim did n't fall far , he got caught in a bush , but he saw the man who was trying to rescue him go all the way down . ’ |
| 25 | The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy . |
| 26 | He has lived in a large house in Buckinghamshire for several years . |
| 27 | Although he has lived in the UK since 1969 , Zarei was born in Iran and is often listed as Iranian , but he is officially a British athlete , and won an England vest when competing in the Milton Keynes 24-hour Championships in 1989 . |
| 28 | GERALD MALONE , official Conservative was appointed by the Winchester branch of the party as their prospective candidate some 18 months ago , since when he has lived in the area . |
| 29 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 30 | Sachin Tandulkar , Yorkshire 's first-ever overseas player , does his best to look as if he has lived in the northern county all his life |