Example sentences of "[adv] catch up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The audience settled quickly after the interval and was soon once more caught up in the mounting dramatic tension of The Hooded Owl . |
| 5 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |
| 6 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
| 7 | Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 9 | First , a lot had been achieved ( other countries were only now catching up with the Clean Air Act ) . |
| 10 | It still exists and it will undoubtedly catch up with the retail price index shortly and go ahead of it from 1994 onwards , as the direct tax burden which is included in the TPI rises faster than the indirect taxes which go into the RPI . |
| 11 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |