Example sentences of "[is] catch [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East .
2 Jordan is catching up with the Western world .
3 Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes .
4 From the blurred picture you can see the vital point when the clubhead is catching up with the hands .
5 The individual is caught up in the personalising/objectifying dialectic as in life , and because the communication is between participants , the normal interaction of a social context is also reflected .
6 The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story .
7 The tree is caught up in the constellations .
8 He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives .
9 So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear .
10 In an early episode of Hill Street Blues the ‘ joke ’ of a ‘ nut ’ who thinks he is Dracula , complete with cape and thirst for blood , is caught out by the discovery that he has hanged himself in his cell .
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