Example sentences of "catch in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herefordshire were the team to catch in the Eastern Division by winning their first two matches — just . |
| 2 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 3 | That summer , scoop necks and arms bare to the shoulders were what every woman wore , with hair loose , or caught in a gleaming beehive . |
| 4 | Such people , caught in a strange web of masochism , find their emotional fulfilment not in acts of love but in being made to scrub kitchen floors or scour out pans . |
| 5 | Science and The Church are caught in a bloody feud dating back to the 14th century . |
| 6 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 7 | Like everyone else 's in this period , his life became one of monotony and anxiety , caught in a middle period when pre-war life seemed unreal and post-war life unimaginable . |
| 8 | Fairbrother was another Kumble victim , skying a catch to mid-off to be sixth out and playing the shot of a man fed up with being the last recognised batsman caught in a hopeless position . |
| 9 | She had n't expected him to be simply standing there , watching her , and her breath caught in a small gasp as she almost collided with him . |
| 10 | The other way is that commercial banks are themselves caught in a vicious squeeze . |
| 11 | This raises the possibility that OS/2 — and , with it , IBM 's partnership with Microsoft — will get caught in a vicious circle , much like DOS got caught in a virtuous one . |
| 12 | Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell . |
| 13 | They were caught in a vicious circle : in low-paid jobs because they were women , while the jobs were low-paid because women did them . |
| 14 | At the same time rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break . |
| 15 | But it can be assumed that many millions of poor rural women are caught in a vicious cycle : they eat food to get human energy , and then spend all this energy in producing food and collecting the energy needed to cook it . |
| 16 | She knew she was caught in a vicious trap , sliding down a slippery spiral . |
| 17 | Pressure groups for the older persons were caught in a similar dilemma . |
| 18 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 19 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |
| 20 | But the best of the lot is the tiny chip of violet nail polish we found caught in a torn portion of the table-cloth . ’ |
| 21 | Glaring at him , her eyes washed with impotent tears , she tried to push past him , only to be caught in a punishing grip . |
| 22 | It was an AIDS benefit and I was caught in a private moment . |
| 23 | The aid worker caught in a civil war . |
| 24 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 25 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 26 | This included a man who needed emergency treatment after his hand was caught in a crushing machine at the Unique Packaging firm in Abingdon . |
| 27 | Next moment she was caught in a strong arm , a hand coming over her mouth . |
| 28 | The legionnaire sees himself caught in a never-ending cycle of darkness and despair , until the day when he will be liberated through atonement of his past crimes . |
| 29 | Here , perhaps , green consumerism can try to get us to eat tuna that has been caught in a wildlife-friendly way ! |
| 30 | She stood up and raised her hand , but before she could slap him roundly on his face she felt her wrist caught in a vice-like grip . |