Example sentences of "catch up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I caught up with the others as they were entering the front door of the house . |
2 | For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare . |
3 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
4 | The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm . |
5 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
6 | The Rector of Londesborough saved the day by giving chase in his car and he and Fred caught up with the horse at the farm gate , waiting to be let in . |
7 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
8 | Over the next decade , Xerox caught up with the competition . |
9 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
10 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
11 | Tundrish caught up with the two of them before they descended whether filled with an access of comradeliness , or leery of why they should seemingly wish to seclude themselves together , who could say ? |
12 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
13 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
14 | Carrying a cross brought back from Jerusalem before them , the " army of peace " caught up with the Brabançons at Malemort , near Brive , and relieved their outraged feelings in an orgy of slaughter . |
15 | Only recently has El Salvador caught up with the " women and development " bandwagon and , in an attempt to modernize its image in the eyes of the rest of the world , on 7 March 1983 , opened its " Women 's Office " . |
16 | If she thought her troubles would be over when and if I caught up with the blackmailer , she was way off . |
17 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
18 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
19 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
20 | He watched as Turakina caught up with the pig and rode over it . |
21 | As Joseph caught up with the senator and Chuck , Jacques Devraux appeared on the track ahead , walking quickly back towards them . |
22 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Over the moor they went until , at last , they caught up with the hounds . |
25 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
26 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
27 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
28 | It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble . |
29 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
30 | They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp . |