Example sentences of "to catch up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trying to catch up on housework |
| 2 | Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading . |
| 3 | The overhaul of trams to catch up on wartime neglect was taking longer than anticipated and it was decided that Purley depôt , still standing out of use , should be cleared of the war damaged cars collecting dust in its interior and be brought back into use as an annexe to Charlton Works where painting and certain other work could be undertaken . |
| 4 | But it will take years , not months , to catch up on decades of neglect , brought about by a regime which year after year spent it 's money on barbed wire and secret police . |
| 5 | The film , shot in England , follows the Yorks from story-book romance to separation and has had to have a £500,000 re-shoot to catch up on Fergie 's topless frolics . |
| 6 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 7 | More obscenities followed just as the two men were hurrying to catch up with Comfort , and then the woman stopped dead in front of Comfort and spat in her face . |
| 8 | So congratulations to Bicester , after the game I managed to catch up with Colin Vynal who scored one of the goals , rather poor quality I 'm afraid , he was on a mobile phone erm a bit of celebration going on , but here 's Colin Vynal of the Bicester Rugby Club . |
| 9 | She handed me a bill from the Spring Onion and mouthed ‘ Sorry , ’ before skipping off to catch up with Lisabeth . |
| 10 | Married women were thought to be particularly likely to abuse the system because of the temptation to stay at home to catch up with housework . |
| 11 | ‘ We think we are going to catch up with aspartame very quickly , ’ Shaw says . |
| 12 | It may be impossible to catch up with history , but no-one could accuse the entertainment mongers of not trying . |
| 13 | Roman would gladly say goodbye now he was about to catch up with Garry . |
| 14 | They politely said goodbye , and Duncan left to catch up with Myeloski . |
| 15 | He kicked his st'lyan into a trot and rode to catch up with Kiku . |
| 16 | The reductions in university places , just at the time when girls are beginning to gain something like equal access , may have the effect of decreasing the absolute numbers of girls in universities even if they manage to catch up with boys proportionally . |
| 17 | To catch up with Germany by the end of the decade , Britain 's productivity growth must exceed Germany 's by 3 per cent . |
| 18 | Then he turned and ran as fast as he could to catch up with Trung . |
| 19 | It was excellent fun and a really good chance to catch up with friends I had n't seen since graduation . |
| 20 | THE French government has launched a programme to set up a nationwide telecommunications research network , in an effort to catch up with Britain 's JANET system and Germany 's DFN . |
| 21 | Expressing an opinion about the coming Windows NT-on-Pentium versus Unix-on-RISC war , Rhines thought that the Pentium , coming in with lower performance , still in pre-production volumes two years later than RISC processors , could never hope to catch up with RISC . |
| 22 | There 's an entire film festival with opportunities for film buffs to review old classics and to catch up with films from abroad and from underground directors … |
| 23 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sunconnect division is to roll-out the latest version of SunNet Manager , its network manager software , in an attempt to catch up with Hewlett-Packard Co which has just released OpenView 3.0 . |
| 24 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 25 | Spouse-less in Brighton , he managed to catch up with Angela Cartwright in the foyer of the Grand Hotel . |
| 26 | At the beginning of filming , the physical exertions began to catch up with Crawford , who needed injections in his left leg , which was hurting furiously . |
| 27 | No , all you need , to catch up with spring work , is a little expertise in time management . |
| 28 | He is keen to catch up with family and friends , especially his 91-year-old mum Dolly Simmons who lives in Bebington . |
| 29 | Can he say whether productivity in the British coal industry is beginning to catch up with productivity in the coal industries of our major competitors ? |
| 30 | ‘ He told me you were the kind of man who might be able to catch up with Vecchi . |