Example sentences of "and catch up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway they would land down at our place most weekends , because we used to take the Darlington and Stockton Times , and they would all be smoking their pipes and talking , asking , ‘ What hast thou fresh , now ’ and catching up on the comings and goings of Baldersdale . |
| 2 | Well , it 's good to be back on the list and catching up on the mountain of messages . |
| 3 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 4 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 5 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 6 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 7 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 8 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 9 | She refused to look upon herself as an invalid , but it might be sensible to take a tonic , say , during the coming winter months , and to catch up with the loss of sleep she had so cheerfully endured . |
| 10 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 11 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 12 | You 've got a long and full life ahead of you , chum , so you must now stop worrying and go back to sleep and catch up on the strength you 'll need for living it up when you 're better . ’ |
| 13 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 14 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 15 | The opportunity for Mass and the chance to meet friends and catch up on the news is much appreciated . |
| 16 | whether he will be invited to lunch with Rose and Phil , and if not , whether to get a sandwich in a pub , or go straight back to the office , send out for sandwiches , and catch up on the plans for the Manchester Marina scheme ; and if so , whether to order egg and tomato sandwiches , or cheese and chutney , or some of each ; |
| 17 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 18 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |