Example sentences of "catch up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 2 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 3 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 4 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 5 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 6 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |
| 7 | It still exists and it will undoubtedly catch up with the retail price index shortly and go ahead of it from 1994 onwards , as the direct tax burden which is included in the TPI rises faster than the indirect taxes which go into the RPI . |
| 8 | Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party . |
| 9 | Now , in an unbelievably four short years , they had caught up with the atomic bomb which alone guaranteed the security of the much-disarmed United States . |
| 10 | I had caught up with the advance guard of greenkeepers , and greeted the head greenkeeper , a fit-looking , lean man with a rather scholarly stoop and a trim grey beard . |
| 11 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 12 | If we had stayed longer we would have caught up with the three-day Dartington Conference on Building a Sustainable Future for Rural Britain , addressed by such luminaries in this field as Marion Shoard , Malcolm Moseley and David Lock . |
| 13 | Conversely , many players get caught up with the fashionable aspect and spend ages learning how to , say , play slap impressively , then get a gig with a band only to find that there is n't a context where it can be used . |
| 14 | It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) . |
| 15 | The Poles are une nation foutue who can only continue to serve a purpose until such time as Russia herself becomes caught up into the agrarian revolution . |
| 16 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 17 | The two are caught up in a desperate race to save their women — knowing that the rescue of one means the destruction of the other . |
| 18 | Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work . |
| 19 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 20 | As we approach the site , coming off the freeway , we get caught up in a four mile tailback , as there 's only one entrance to the fairground . |
| 21 | Those coal heavers , weavers , sailors , labourers and others of the lower orders who took to the streets in 1768 were to a large extent caught up in a political moment which coincided with longer-running economic grievances . |
| 22 | Even if Telecom could get planning permission for its Ballsbridge site ( although it is difficult to see anyone now wanting to get caught up in a possible planning scandal on top of what has already gone down ) the development costs are going to be huge . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 25 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 26 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 27 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |
| 28 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 29 | Lloyd is caught up in a worldwide agreement which limits a foreign-based jockey to a 30-day stay . |
| 30 | Now John Burnett found his good-natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America . |