Example sentences of "[noun] to catch [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited an hour for you to come , and , from the look of it , I 've got quite a bit to catch up on . |
| 2 | And just think , Barbara , you 've got all of their other songs to catch up on . ’ |
| 3 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 4 | IN THE Collectair office there has been much back correspondence to catch up on . |
| 5 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 6 | The market ; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was no meal to prepare , no chores to catch up on , no watches to keep . |
| 10 | Harriet often came to stay at Netherhampton to catch up on all the ‘ gossip of Salisbury ’ and to take her mind off her romance with Shelley , thwarted at every step by her brother Charles . |
| 11 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 12 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 13 | Just think , all that music to catch up on … ’ |
| 14 | Well I guess we have a lot to catch up on , like the whole of our lives seeing as we finally got to say hello to each other only years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've got rather a lot to catch up on , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Paige and I have a lot to catch up on , ’ she dismissed her ‘ friend ’ , who merely shrugged , nodded silently to Paige , and just as silently departed . |
| 17 | Even Mahmoud , however , could not get them to work in the afternoons and he too , like Owen , normally used the afternoons to catch up on desk work and reading . |
| 18 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 19 | Nothing threatens the chances of Alton Bass finishing in touch with the top of Hampshire League division one more than a punishing programme of three matches a week they need to complete in order to catch up on their fixture backing . |
| 20 | When that was too much like work there were all the domestic tasks to catch up on . |
| 21 | The overhaul of trams to catch up on wartime neglect was taking longer than anticipated and it was decided that Purley depôt , still standing out of use , should be cleared of the war damaged cars collecting dust in its interior and be brought back into use as an annexe to Charlton Works where painting and certain other work could be undertaken . |
| 22 | It was then the moment for old colleagues to catch up on old times . |
| 23 | This is a time to catch up on urgent paperwork and swap stories with colleagues about the events of the day . |
| 24 | I want to live — just a few more months , just to have time to catch up on old times . ’ |