Example sentences of "catch [adv prt] with the [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 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 15 | I 've also managed to catch up with the ever-lengthening list of official consultations . |
| 16 | To catch up with the first part of the competition , the August issue can be obtained from our Back Issues Service , see p51 . |
| 17 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
| 18 | Sometimes there was a dense mass of men , sometimes only a trickle hurrying to catch up with the main body . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |
| 20 | The British car manufacturing industry has been very reluctant to catch up with the clean technology being offered and vehemently resisted pressure to adopt catalytic converters for many years , advocating instead an alternative technology known as the ‘ lean burn engine ’ . |
| 21 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 22 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 23 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 24 | Catching up with the latest news of the boys here 's Mickey Ianotta again . |
| 25 | First , a lot had been achieved ( other countries were only now catching up with the Clean Air Act ) . |