Example sentences of "catch [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track .
2 Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track .
3 Dummies have since caught on as a fashion accessory at raves , but whether the trend was sparked by the emergence of Ketamine , or whether it 's just a way to keep the burning under control , is lost to myth and drug folklore .
4 Raisins were first included in American cookies only six years ago , but the idea has caught on with a vengeance .
5 SCIENTISTS are beginning to catch on to a technique with the space-age name of FAB-MS ( fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry ) .
6 2 More fundamentally , however , defence of the established electoral system is caught up with a belief in the virtues of the Responsible Party Government model that we discussed in the Chapter 2 .
7 The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation .
8 ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’
9 Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs .
10 After all it 's not every day you get caught up in a paradigm shift .
11 Or was he , like so many millions of others , caught up in a swell of mindless sentiment which hardly knew what it was doing ?
12 If migrating birds are caught up in a storm , or blown off course , it can be disastrous for , even undisturbed these vast journeys stretch them to the limit .
13 ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust .
14 I let myself get caught up in a legend — a fairy-tale .
15 She was tall , a little on the stout side , and had long brown hair with one or two streaks of grey in it which was caught up in a bun perched on the top of her head .
16 In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk .
17 It 's because they 're caught up in a system which keeps blacks in positions where they have to play only secondary roles to whites .
18 I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other .
19 It is like in a story such as the ballet Giselle when Alberic goes to her tomb and is caught up in a vision of her .
20 Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear .
21 Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain .
22 There he 's caught up in a gas attack , and when he returns to Swindon he suffers recurring asthma .
23 The experience comes very close to being mistakenly caught up in a lawnmower .
24 Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution .
25 Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of .
26 If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it .
27 South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation .
28 But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services .
29 Caught up in a wishing well
30 Just when you think you 're in for an in-depth discussion on the technicalities of the Joey Beltram mix of state-of-the-art frightcore Techno duo MESSIAH 's last single , you find yourself caught up in a debate about doom and dwarf procuring and rock 'n' roll giants .
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