Example sentences of "to catch [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | SCIENTISTS are beginning to catch on to a technique with the space-age name of FAB-MS ( fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry ) . |
2 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
3 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
4 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
5 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |
6 | ‘ Thoroughbreds will always be able to catch up in a race over a long distance . |