Example sentences of "[vb infin] caught [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have directed you to a loch that is right by the side of the road where you would have caught nothing all day . ’ |
| 2 | Wright , who at 37 chortles about being one of NZ 's so-called ‘ young guns ’ , five years ago probably would have caught one which dropped just in front of him at gully . |
| 3 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 4 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
| 6 | She adds : ‘ Two years ago , you would n't have caught me dead getting married but now I think it 'd be nice to have a husband — and a little girl I could teach to ride . ’ |
| 7 | You may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that I try to force meself not to and it 's something to remember . |
| 8 | Erm if I tried they would have caught me so I just stand still and do n't scream or cry because I 'll get some more . |
| 9 | You might have caught her . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If Fraser had n't mucked about when he got back and found she 'd gone , we might have caught her before the boat sailed . ’ |
| 11 | Lewis ought to have gone himself , he is a showman : he might have caught her , Simon 's friend , as he did catch me . |
| 12 | You called your wife a tart , which is your business and hers , but you also said that if you 'd known where she 'd gone you would have caught her at it . |
| 13 | ‘ Jack must have caught him and locked him in there . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If I 'd known what you were going to do , I 'd never have caught him . ’ |
| 15 | The end of the shovel must have caught him . |
| 16 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 17 | You might have caught him then . ’ |
| 18 | He had given us the computer codes to chalk on the outside of the boxes , but you would n't have caught him packing files into the boxes or wrapping them up with pink tape afterwards . |
| 19 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 20 | You may have caught him imitating sand hoppers and sundry creepy-crawlies on the current David Bellamy TV series . |
| 21 | She must have caught him with her fist , though she had n't felt it . |
| 22 | You may have caught him on television in 1991 when he was the studio expert for the BBC 's coverage of the Scrabble World Championship , or more recently introducing a video on the game . |
| 23 | I could have caught them . |
| 24 | She must have caught her heel and tripped , just rotten bad luck . |
| 25 | Animals would have known , would have caught his scent , or have seen him suddenly among them , and they 'd have turned and fled as a herd will turn from a predator . |
| 26 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 27 | Joseph had a simple clearance to make for Palace 's first goal and Segers should have held the cross that led to the second — I could have caught it myself . ’ |
| 28 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 29 | Who he was she could n't say , because the room was too dark , but he must have left the front door open and the wind must have caught it and made it shut with a crash . |
| 30 | Fighters such as the P–51H Mustang ( as illustrated , defending San Francisco ) with a top speed of 480mph could certainly have caught it , however . |