Example sentences of "catch [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toucans collect them one at a time , throwing them up in the air and deftly catching them at the back of their throats . |
| 2 | caught them through the prep room keyhole , testing |
| 3 | Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig . |
| 4 | You can catch me on the phone . |
| 5 | " But I thought I might catch them in the act . |
| 6 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 7 | Er , caught me on the hop . |
| 8 | Charlie showed no obvious signs of friendship as he immediately caught me on the chin . |
| 9 | It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out . |
| 10 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 11 | On the climb-out at 100 ft there was a loud explosion and a lump of metal attached to a control wire whipped round and caught me in the groin . |
| 12 | FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 . |
| 13 | Would n't like him to catch me under the kissing bough . ’ |
| 14 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 15 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 16 | There were traps to catch them along the way . |
| 17 | I 've sent Tuathal with a hundred horse to catch them in the ravine at Glen Farg . ’ |
| 18 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 19 | They caught someone in the Bazaar just the other day . |
| 20 | I had the almost childish impression that if we kept within the pools of light everything would be fine but , beyond the flames , shadows lurked and powers even darker waited to catch you by the throat . |
| 21 | ‘ Caught you on the hop this morning ! ’ said Postie . |
| 22 | Sit down on your bottom and I 'll catch you at the bottom , right you ready ? |
| 23 | Well , I 've caught you in the act . |
| 24 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 25 | Anyone who has not seen Karajan 's Berliners in full cry — the CD videos will rectify this omission in the fullness of time — can at least catch something of the wonder of the spectacle in the piece Neville Cardus wrote about the first of the 1961 Beethoven concerts in London . |
| 26 | It seems that many of the communities trading with Minoan Crete caught something of the flavour of its culture , whether material or spiritual , and developed it in their own way . |
| 27 | Her eye caught something on the video display , the shock transferring to Delaney . |
| 28 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 29 | Some entrepreneurial showmen then decided they would try to make money out of his popularity and they caught him with the hope of transporting him to London to put on display . |
| 30 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |