Example sentences of "to catch up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark .
4 Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark .
5 Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark .
6 Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark .
7 Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark .
8 Well Zoe Muir decided to catch up on the progress of our other volunteer , Katy Clark .
9 This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks .
10 ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs .
11 As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control .
12 With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news .
13 John McLeish was in his office , Saturday or no Saturday , telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork .
14 She decided to go back to work — but first wanted to catch up on the qualifications she 'd missed out on .
15 It will also provide a ‘ dip in service ’ for those who wish to catch up on the headlines , the business needs , the travel , the weather and other key information each hour .
16 The market ; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there .
17 Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Next day , it 's off to the supermarket to catch up with the shopping — do n't forget the newborn-size nappies !
21 One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine .
22 If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century .
23 ‘ The breaks are probably where the mobile is moving from one cell to another and he is searching through to catch up with the conversation again in the next cell .
24 European sales accounted for 25% of NCD 's revenues last year — the company expects that figure to rise to 40% this year as Europe begins to catch up with the US in its adoption of X-Windows-based technologies .
25 Here , with the concentration on labour-intensive crops , not only large estates with hired labour but large peasant farms also flourished , and even began to catch up with the estates .
26 Although Newcastle is having to run very hard to catch up with the mechanics of community care , Roycroft thinks that in terms of the spirit of the act , the city is already way ahead .
27 Thomas needed to catch up with the shapechanger .
28 To catch up with the plot
29 The purpose of these breaks is to give learners a chance to catch up with the plot ; to get them to a point where they understand enough of what has happened to make a reasonable stab at following the gist of the next part .
30 This invitation is also open to former members of the Scholarship Scheme , several of whom have found the Summer School an excellent ‘ refresher course ’ , and a way to catch up with the progress of their colleagues .
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