Example sentences of "catch up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Poitier plays a homicide cop from a big city who inadvertently finds himself caught up in a murder investigation in the town where he is staying . |
| 32 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 33 | caught up in a swirl |
| 34 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 35 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 36 | In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster , Bette Davis , who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist . |
| 37 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 38 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 39 | As the title suggests , this is the tragedy of Thomas Fox ; the narrative draws out the disintegration , physical and mental , of an innocent boy caught up in a world of inexplicable rules and inescapable brutality . |
| 40 | It 's a fearful world where even the goodies have a strangeness about them , as they too are caught up in a world of little people , strange animals and flying objects . |
| 41 | Workers are caught up in a form of ‘ prisoners ’ dilemma' . |
| 42 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 43 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 44 | The London International Opera Festival is now a regular fixture in the June calendar , and though its scale may be relatively modest — a skilful combination of performances annexed from the seasons of the Royal Opera and English National Opera with one- off ventures mounted by small-scale professional companies — it serves as a useful chance for the capital to catch up with a variety of new work that has failed to find a niche elsewhere . |
| 45 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |
| 46 | ‘ Thoroughbreds will always be able to catch up in a race over a long distance . |
| 47 | CATCHING UP ON A BACKLOG |
| 48 | the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings |