Example sentences of "to catch up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 2 | I 've also managed to catch up with the ever-lengthening list of official consultations . |
| 3 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
| 4 | Sometimes there was a dense mass of men , sometimes only a trickle hurrying to catch up with the main body . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |
| 6 | The British car manufacturing industry has been very reluctant to catch up with the clean technology being offered and vehemently resisted pressure to adopt catalytic converters for many years , advocating instead an alternative technology known as the ‘ lean burn engine ’ . |