Example sentences of "catch up with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tundrish caught up with the two of them before they descended whether filled with an access of comradeliness , or leery of why they should seemingly wish to seclude themselves together , who could say ? |
| 2 | On Sundays Maxie Frizzell caught up with the various jobs his wife Donna required him to do . |
| 3 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 4 | Gradually the sprawling city caught up with the quiet avenues . |
| 5 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
| 6 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 7 | By the time we caught up with the three men at the top of the ladder , they were attempting to heave the coffin into its grotto with a series of hefty swings which caused a wave-motion to be generated in the ladder , very nearly sending us all to the ground sixty feet below . |
| 8 | When Milosh caught up with the gay procession of knights , they hailed him : " Where are you going , little Bulgar ? " |
| 9 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 10 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 11 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Well let's catch up with the latest from the Manor ground , I think Nick Harris is back in the press box now . |
| 14 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |
| 15 | It still exists and it will undoubtedly catch up with the retail price index shortly and go ahead of it from 1994 onwards , as the direct tax burden which is included in the TPI rises faster than the indirect taxes which go into the RPI . |
| 16 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 17 | Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party . |
| 18 | Now , in an unbelievably four short years , they had caught up with the atomic bomb which alone guaranteed the security of the much-disarmed United States . |
| 19 | I had caught up with the advance guard of greenkeepers , and greeted the head greenkeeper , a fit-looking , lean man with a rather scholarly stoop and a trim grey beard . |
| 20 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 21 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 22 | If we had stayed longer we would have caught up with the three-day Dartington Conference on Building a Sustainable Future for Rural Britain , addressed by such luminaries in this field as Marion Shoard , Malcolm Moseley and David Lock . |
| 23 | Conversely , many players get caught up with the fashionable aspect and spend ages learning how to , say , play slap impressively , then get a gig with a band only to find that there is n't a context where it can be used . |
| 24 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 25 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 26 | I 've also managed to catch up with the ever-lengthening list of official consultations . |
| 27 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 28 | To catch up with the first part of the competition , the August issue can be obtained from our Back Issues Service , see p51 . |
| 29 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 30 | A wounded horse limped in the wheat , trying to catch up with the other cavalry horses . |