Example sentences of "were [adv] catch [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country .
2 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 .
3 They were thoroughly caught up in the contest .
4 A number of people from the North-East were also caught up in the riots .
5 Large parts of the Suiheisha were subsequently caught up in the government 's clampdown on radicalism after the mid-1920s .
6 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 .
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