Example sentences of "catch up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp . |
| 2 | Over the next decade , Xerox caught up with the competition . |
| 3 | It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble . |
| 4 | If she thought her troubles would be over when and if I caught up with the blackmailer , she was way off . |
| 5 | For them , especially , it 's time we caught up with the rest of the European Community and extended to all workers employment protection , pro rata benefits and pay , as well as parental leave and childcare . |
| 6 | The Rector of Londesborough saved the day by giving chase in his car and he and Fred caught up with the horse at the farm gate , waiting to be let in . |
| 7 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 8 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 9 | He watched as Turakina caught up with the pig and rode over it . |
| 10 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 11 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 12 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
| 13 | As Joseph caught up with the senator and Chuck , Jacques Devraux appeared on the track ahead , walking quickly back towards them . |
| 14 | They caught up in the air did n't they ? |
| 15 | Then we sit there talking and reading , thinking we 'll catch up with the recording in a couple of days — only we never do . |
| 16 | Soon , they would catch up with the sun and obscure it . |
| 17 | It could , therefore , be the case that , in future , the TV audience will gradually catch up with the TV commercial producers ' instincts . |
| 18 | so while our climbers rest and enjoy the sea air we can now catch up with the rest of the sporting action … |
| 19 | ‘ You can catch up on the reading in-flight . |
| 20 | You 've got a long and full life ahead of you , chum , so you must now stop worrying and go back to sleep and catch up on the strength you 'll need for living it up when you 're better . ’ |
| 21 | It 's J 's birthday on April 2nd & they are having a party ( at last ! ) so I 'll catch up on the news then — they are v. seldom at Gayfield St these days , so I never see them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But the philosophers have not yet caught up with the idea . |
| 25 | Chart 3 indicates that , as a result of the advertising , growth in Gold 90 balances in Scottish branches initially grew much faster , although , subsequent to the advertising campaign , growth in English and Welsh branches has caught up with the help of other communications , including the Personal Customer Newsletter and posters in branches supporting some magnificent local sales efforts . |
| 26 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |
| 27 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 28 | The principles here are clear , fully Catholic and yet in terms of pre-conciliar Roman theory revolutionary ( not so revolutionary in practice : some sacramental sharing had always continued in parts of the East where ecclesiastical reality had never quite caught up with the theory of ultramontanism ) . |
| 29 | As is often the case , science has simply caught up with the hobbyist on this point , as synspilum is quite obviously different from melanurum , and from other Theraps , when you see one swimming round your tank , especially when it is an adult in full colour . |
| 30 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |