Example sentences of "caught up in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many Christian people who are caught up in the whirlpool of grief , the most difficult part may well be their realization that they are in fact feeling very distressed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Into this stalks Zoltan Szanto ( Niels Arestrup ) , as a Hungarian conductor who believes the power of music should ease all the squabbles until he gets caught up in the soap opera himself , beginning an affair with the opera 's star Karin Anderson ( Glenn Close ) . |
| 4 | In 1952 , James found himself caught up in the tide of Cold War paranoia sweeping America . |
| 5 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 6 | The decision follows the Scottish court ruling which banned the BBC from broadcasting tape recordings of interviews with nine children caught up in the scandal . |
| 7 | Such sharks caught up in the net of pressganging were generally ideal raw material for the Guard . |
| 8 | The swivel will turn with the bird 's movements , so that it does n't get caught up in the leash . |
| 9 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 10 | Caught up in the performance , few people seemed to wonder whether what they were hearing was an accurate account of the affair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Children , trapped in the car of an innocent driver caught up in the crash . |
| 13 | Waller 's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire . |
| 14 | ‘ As well as the mouse droppings there was a dead housefly caught up in the clothing . |
| 15 | What seems to me to need attention is … [ the ] movement of psychoanalysis away from content ( pre-Oedipal or otherwise ) to a concept of sexuality as caught up in the register of demand and desire . |
| 16 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 17 | He recognizes also that whether we like it or not we are ‘ caught up in the conflagration of Hi sā . ’ |
| 18 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 19 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 20 | Are there problems caught up in the case for change ? |
| 21 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 22 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 23 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 24 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 25 | Alongside their traditional functions ( which grow ever harder to explain to a public caught up in the excitement of recent developments ) , they offer a general reassurance against unpleasant surprises ; a brake on events which could otherwise outstrip our power to control them . |
| 26 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | After watching a few people jumping and getting caught up in the excitement and atmosphere , I decided I would love to have a shot , much to the family 's amazement and Sandy 's amusement . |
| 29 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 30 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |