Example sentences of "so [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 2 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 3 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 4 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 5 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |
| 6 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 7 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 10 | She was so caught up in her own feelings that she failed to detect the danger in the question . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 13 | She 'd loved that dress , felt so grown up in it ! |
| 14 | When they are so wrapped up in themselves and their problems , and , they are so hard done by ? |
| 15 | Conran also disputes the suggestion that it must be difficult for a man so wrapped up in design to divorce himself from detailed involvement in the creative process in order to tackle the numerous other tasks that befall a captain of industry . |
| 16 | May we never become so wrapped up in our own trivial problems that we forget to care about anyone else . |
| 17 | Maybe you do — you 're so wrapped up in your rotten selfishness that you ca n't see anyone else . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 19 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 20 | Marin Marais ( Depardieu ) is cruel and self-obsessed while Sainte Colombe ( Marielle ) is so wrapped up in his own private world of misery , he shuts out his family and the world . |
| 21 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 22 | Only then did Chesarynth realize that he 'd started , so wrapped up in her anxiety was she . |
| 23 | She could n't help remembering the way Josh had looked , that afternoon in the front parlour , so wrapped up in his own misery she could n't reach him . |
| 24 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 25 | I think they had both been so wrapped up in themselves they had quite forgotten my existence . |
| 26 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 27 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 28 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 29 | However , it is a less expressive image , as it is a less expressive moment , for while he is so wrapped up in the action of taking the shot she can not reveal much more than that furtive concentration that takes over any face in the act of intensive looking . |
| 30 | She was so wrapped up in the portrait that she heard nothing until the clink of glass told her she was not alone , and as she spun round she found Alain turning from pouring himself a drink . |