Example sentences of "caught up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world .
6 Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future .
10 It is even closer to Paul 's description of the man who was caught up into the third heaven ( 2 Corinthians 12:2 ) .
11 The Poles are une nation foutue who can only continue to serve a purpose until such time as Russia herself becomes caught up into the agrarian revolution .
12 And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling .
13 And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires , you silly boy .
14 A theorist might suggest that the conspirators are principally , but not exclusively , Jewish : for example , there might be some Gentile Freemasons caught up in the conspiratorial network .
15 Although he had deliberately distanced himself from the government since being ‘ sacked ’ as prime minister nearly two years ago and although he personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals which have beset the Socialist Party , he found himself caught up in the great tidal wave of rejection of the Socialists , which has swept the country .
16 They will be used on humanitarian aid projects by UN High Commission for Refugees teams providing urgently-needed food , blankets and clothing to people caught up in the Balkan conflict .
17 Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way .
18 BRITONS caught up in the horrifying riots tearing the heart out of Los Angeles told yesterday of their terror .
19 Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume .
20 Everyone seemed to be caught up in the general euphoria except the bride .
21 So there is evidence that the immune system is caught up in the pathological process , but whether it 's truly an auto-immune disease is not so clear .
22 James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France .
23 Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions .
24 Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief .
25 For a moment , she felt unusually relaxed , caught up in the lazy , easy-going atmosphere of the Sunday afternoon crowds .
26 Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage .
27 Key members accused the MPs of being so caught up in the technical arguments and the prospect of winning one concession from the Government after a barren frustrating decade that they lost sight of the big picture .
28 Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age .
29 Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work .
30 The tempo of living quickens this week and it will be difficult to avoid getting caught up in the frantic pace of events .
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