Example sentences of "[was/were] catch up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 2 | Members of the Royal Marines orchestra , including some bandsmen who were caught up in the bombing , played during the hour-long service . |
| 3 | Tatham also represented investors who were caught up in the Farrington Stead collapse . |
| 4 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 5 | Although these families rose further than any since the sixteenth century , many of the Sussex gentry were caught up in the process of aggrandisement . |
| 6 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 7 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 8 | How many , I wonder , were caught up in the looting frenzy themselves and are now attempting to make amends ? |
| 9 | It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 . |
| 10 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 11 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 12 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 13 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 14 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 15 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 16 | It was caught up at the neck into a huge thick collar of silver fur . |
| 17 | It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) . |
| 18 | Rose too was caught up in the preparations . |
| 19 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 20 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 21 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 22 | A railway worker , also making his way home , was caught up in the riot and , as a result of baton blows , was deafened in one ear and had to have sixteen stitches to his head . |
| 23 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 24 | Waller 's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire . |
| 25 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 26 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 27 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |
| 28 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 29 | Although he admits there were ‘ times it felt like farce — chasing a guy through the woods who was chasing the ghost of his dead father ’ , Bradley nevertheless says there were moments when he was caught up in the atmosphere . |
| 30 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |