Example sentences of "catch up [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 2 | Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs . |
| 3 | Or was he , like so many millions of others , caught up in a swell of mindless sentiment which hardly knew what it was doing ? |
| 4 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 5 | I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other . |
| 6 | It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her . |
| 7 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 8 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 9 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 10 | If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it . |
| 11 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 12 | She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment . |
| 13 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 14 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 15 | Young people were caught up in a whirlwind of activity with , to quote a social worker , ‘ the teachers and the physios and the medics arguing out who has this square inch of this kid 's time ’ . |
| 16 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 17 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 18 | As the title suggests , this is the tragedy of Thomas Fox ; the narrative draws out the disintegration , physical and mental , of an innocent boy caught up in a world of inexplicable rules and inescapable brutality . |
| 19 | It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects . |
| 20 | Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' . |
| 21 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 22 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 23 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 24 | the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings |