Example sentences of "catch [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 2 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 3 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 4 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 5 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 6 | Rose gave a yelp of rage , her arm shot out and Evelyn gave an involuntary cry as the stone caught her on the left shoulder . |
| 7 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 8 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 9 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 10 | catch him at the right time . |
| 11 | It 's a sort of That 's right push it through the hole and catch it at the other side . |
| 12 | I 've thrown it over and catch it in the other hand . |
| 13 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
| 14 | The car turned into the road ahead of him , catching him in the full beam of its headlights . |
| 15 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 16 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |