Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] caught up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaknecking it has finally caught up with me . |
| 2 | The 20th century may have been slow to arrive in Langtoft , but it is all the better for that , and whilst the village has now caught up with modern times , it remains a haven of peace from the mad pace of town and city life . |
| 3 | As is often the case , science has simply caught up with the hobbyist on this point , as synspilum is quite obviously different from melanurum , and from other Theraps , when you see one swimming round your tank , especially when it is an adult in full colour . |
| 4 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 5 | Around the Old Executive Office Building , where the NSC staff had their offices , North was remembered as a man who seemed always caught up in some dark drama : leaving for the airport , constantly being paged in meetings , ‘ looking like a ghost ’ in the corridor . |
| 6 | He seemed more caught up with this coincidence than interested in the school he had come to see , Sara decided . |
| 7 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
| 8 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 9 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |
| 10 | Soon the family get unwittingly caught up in an attempt by an extreme IRA faction to blow up a limousine carrying one of the Royal family . |
| 11 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 12 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 13 | Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the . |
| 14 | A yawn took her by surprise ; her long day and the worry about Dana , to say nothing of the arrival of Roman Wyatt , had finally caught up with her . |
| 15 | Athelstan was sure the murderer was in the Tower and equally certain that some evil deed from the past had finally caught up with Sir Ralph . |
| 16 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 17 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 18 | Mind you we 've now caught up with some more traffic which is going even more slowly . |