Example sentences of "catch [pron] at it " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	But field staff may have their suspicions and these can be translated into more frequent monitoring of the suspects in the hope of ‘ catching them at it ’ .
2	It 's catching them at it that 's difficult .
3	Floy had said he and Snodgrass would try their best to leave markers on the road as they went , providing that Balor did not catch them at it .
4	They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge .
5	The Chinese manservant caught me at it .
6	He said , ‘ Yes , I wanted you lads to catch them at it and arrest them ’ . ’
7	‘ One of these days he 'll catch you at it , ’ Emily answered .
8	If I 'd found out where you went I 'd have caught you at it . ’
9	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 .
10	It 's nothing to do with this job , I just like to drive past whenever I can because sooner or later I 'll catch him at it .
11	‘ But I 'll catch him at it yet , ’ he wound up , wagging a threatening hand at the window .
12	The Brigadier 's always out to catch him at it .
13	If Iran is cheating on nuclear weapons , the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to catch it at it .
14	But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it .
15	So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it .
16	They 're a randy lot , really — they only murder unfaithful wives if they actually catch them at it . ’
17	They 've all got to keep an eye out for her and try catch her at it but
18	The other source of embarrassment was the very real possibility that Dennis would stroll over at any moment and catch us at it .

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