Example sentences of "catch up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 2 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 3 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 4 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 5 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 6 | And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy . |
| 7 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 8 | BRITONS caught up in the horrifying riots tearing the heart out of Los Angeles told yesterday of their terror . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 13 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 14 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 15 | Yet both sides expressed satisfaction that the Israeli-Palestinian talks were finally catching up with the concurrent negotiations between Israel and its other Arab adversaries , Jordan , Lebanon and Syria . |
| 16 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |