Example sentences of "[adv] catch up in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
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 | 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 . |
5 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
6 | Mud , as a solution to the world 's housing problem , is thus caught up in an intricate economic , social and political web . |
7 | 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 . |
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 audience settled quickly after the interval and was soon once more caught up in the mounting dramatic tension of The Hooded Owl . |
11 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |
12 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
13 | The experience comes very close to being mistakenly caught up in a lawnmower . |
14 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
15 | The last thing I want after the programme is to be still caught up in the atmosphere of the studio . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | They were thoroughly caught up in the contest . |
19 | A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Sadly , teachers too are sometimes caught up in a competitive assessment system — perhaps even as beneficiaries . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ As well as the mouse droppings there was a dead housefly caught up in the clothing . |
27 | The class is completely caught up in the action : toes and shoulders wriggling in sympathy . |
28 | It is not merely we parliamentarians who are the victims of that haste ; local government is again caught up in a hopeless struggle against the odds . |
29 | Large parts of the Suiheisha were subsequently caught up in the government 's clampdown on radicalism after the mid-1920s . |
30 | 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 . |