Example sentences of "caught up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird .
2 By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs .
3 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 .
4 I learned so much and soon caught up with the fleet ’ .
5 Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world .
6 If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist .
7 We were in Muscat by 10 am the next day , glad to have caught up with the group which was preparing to leave .
8 As is often the case , science has simply caught up with the hobbyist on this point , as synspilum is quite obviously different from melanurum , and from other Theraps , when you see one swimming round your tank , especially when it is an adult in full colour .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party .
12 The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation .
13 The principles here are clear , fully Catholic and yet in terms of pre-conciliar Roman theory revolutionary ( not so revolutionary in practice : some sacramental sharing had always continued in parts of the East where ecclesiastical reality had never quite caught up with the theory of ultramontanism ) .
14 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 .
15 Stalin therefore becomes the authentic Marxist , able to deal with specific historical circumstances , as against Trotsky who is regarded as having been hopelessly caught up with the a priori universalism of an abstract Marxism .
16 Caught up with the reports
17 ‘ And they 'll never rest until they 've caught up with the States . ’
18 But the philosophers have not yet caught up with the idea .
19 A blurred picture taken with a slow-speed camera shows that the clubhead has , indeed , caught up with the hands at address , a fact that the high-speed camera fails to detect .
20 Chart 3 indicates that , as a result of the advertising , growth in Gold 90 balances in Scottish branches initially grew much faster , although , subsequent to the advertising campaign , growth in English and Welsh branches has caught up with the help of other communications , including the Personal Customer Newsletter and posters in branches supporting some magnificent local sales efforts .
21 It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation .
22 Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years .
23 Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention .
24 ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with .
25 Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the .
26 ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’
27 It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur .
28 Best of all , he tells of the people caught up on the fringes of small wars , and finds in their resilience the small mercies of his title .
29 The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future .
30 I have also , since her departure , caught up on the job applications correspondence , which in itself takes time .
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