This page provides example sentences of the verb catch in all tenses including active and passive forms, as well as conditional and modal forms.
Uses of Catch
The verb catch is often used with ball sports:
- See if you can catch this ball.
I’ll throw you the ball and you catch it.
It is also used to express a transfer from one person to another:
- I caught the bug at school
She caught a cold from Tim.
As well as transportation:
- I caught the subway on 34th Street.
I’ll catch a plane for Denver tonight.
Catch can also be used for discovering people doing something wrong:
- I’ve caught my boy stealing cookies a number of times.
Let’s catch the thief.
Common phrasal verbs with catch include: catch up, catch on.
Forms of Catch
- Base Form: catch (used in simple forms)
- Past Simple: caught (used in the past)
- Past Participle: caught
- Gerund: catching
Examples Sentences With Catch
Present Simple
He catches the train at nine o’clock.
I often catch students’ colds.
Present Simple Passive
The ball is caught by the player at first base.
The flu is caught by many during the winter.
Present Continuous
They are catching on fast!
He’s catching up with me. Run faster!
Present Continuous Passive
The train is being caught by a number of fans.
The fish are being caught in the thousands this month.
Present Perfect
He has caught a cold.
I’ve caught up with my work.
Present Perfect Passive
That train has been caught by more than one million travelers.
That fish as already been caught!
Present Perfect Continuous
He has been catching on slowly.
We have been catching up this week.
Past Simple
Peter caught the ball.
Did you catch the train to New York last week?
Past Simple Passive
The ball was caught by Peter.
His meaning was caught be all.
Past Continuous
He was catching the train when he bumped into her.
We were catching up when she walked in the door.
Past Continuous Passive
The train was being caught by hundreds of travelers when the announcement rang out.
The ball was being caught as the runner started for home.
Past Perfect
I had caught twenty butterflies by the time she arrived.
They had caught the bus before I called them to cancel the meeting.
Past Perfect Passive
Twenty butterflies had been caught by the time she arrived.
Thirty fly balls had been caught by the outfielder before he won the award.
Past Perfect Continuous
She had been catching butterflies when they arrived.
We’d been catching up on our lives for three hours when we left.
Future (Will)
Anna will catch the next train to Boston.
Throw the ball. I’ll catch it!
Future (Will) Passive
That fish will be caught soon.
This ball will be caught by the outfielder.
Future (Going To)
Michael is going to catch the ball!
He’s going to catch a flight this afternoon.
Future (Going To) Passive
The ball is going to be caught by Michael!
The flu is going to be caught be everybody if we don’t do something.
Future Continuous
This time next week I will be catching the train to Boston.
He will be catching up with Peter this time tomorrow.
Future Perfect
By the end, he will have caught more than 50 butterflies.
He will have caught more than 300 pitches by the end of the game.
Future Possibility
She may catch a cold.
He might catch the ball.
Real Conditional
If she catches a cold, she should see a doctor.
Unless he catches the ball, we’ll lose the game.
Unreal Conditional
If she caught on faster, she would do better in school.
If he caught more balls, they’d win more games.
Past Unreal Conditional
If they had caught the early train, they would have arrived on time.
If he had caught the ball, they would have won the game.
Present Modal
I can catch the next train.
You should catch a show on Broadway.
Past Modal
He can’t have caught the wrong train!
He shouldn’t have caught a cold.
“Catch” in a Sentence (with Audio)
catch (v): to take hold of something, especially something that is moving through the air
Use “catch” in a sentence
Take care not to catch cold. |
I didn’t quite catch the name of that designer. |
She didn’t run fast enough to catch the bus. |
Take a sweater with you so you don’t catch a cold. |
I advised her to catch a morning train. |
It seems that I could never catch up with you.
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Synonym: apprehend, arrest, capture, discover, seize, surprise, take. Similar words: catch on, catches, catch fire, catch up with, patch, watch, scratch, watch out for. Meaning: [kætʃ] n. 1. a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident 2. the quantity that was caught 3. a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect 4. anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) 5. a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) 6. a restraint that checks the motion of something 7. a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window 8. a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth 9. the act of catching an object with the hands 10. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal). v. 1. discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state 2. perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily 3. reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot 4. take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of 5. succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase 6. to hook or entangle 7. attract and fix 8. capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping 9. reach in time 10. get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly 11. catch up with and possibly overtake 12. be struck or affected by 13. check oneself during an action 14. hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers 15. see or watch 16. cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled 17. detect a blunder or misstep 18. grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of 19. contract 20. start burning 21. perceive by hearing 22. suffer from the receipt of 23. attract; cause to be enamored 24. apprehend and reproduce accurately 25. take in and retain 26. spread or be communicated 27. be the catcher 28. become aware of 29. delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned.
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1. Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
2. Laws catch flies and let hornets go free.
3. You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
4. The catin glores catch no mice.
5. A drowning man will catch at a straw.
6. The tail does often catch the fox.
7. Give a lark to catch a kite.
8. Set a thief to catch a thief.
9. First catch your hare then cook him.
10. It takes a thief to catch a thief.
11. Tall trees catch much wind.
12. Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.
13. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
14. If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
15. If you swear you will catch no fish.
15. Wish you can benefit from sentencedict.com and make progress everyday!
16. Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
17. Drowning man will catch at a straw.
18. Eagles catch no flies.
19. If the sky fll (or falls), we shall catch larks.
20. He who would catch fish mush not mind getting wet.
21. He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
22. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
23. He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
24. Harm watch, harm catch.
25. If you run after two heares, you will catch neither.
26. He strained his ears to catch the sound.
27. They catch the fish by spearing them.
28. Try to catch some kip while you can.
29. We had to sprint to catch the bus.
30. The fielder muffed an easy catch.
More similar words: catch on, catches, catch fire, catch up with, patch, watch, scratch, watch out for, pitch, Dutch, bitch, pitcher, stretch, switch, kitchen, switch off, switch on, stretch out, cattle, educate, locate, educator, scatter, catalog, Catholic, location, education, indicate, dedicate, delicate.
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«I think Venna needs to catch up on some sleep
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Catch them being
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We have to catch up with her,» Herndon said, «That’s our only chance
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«It would be better to catch her offshore, she can’t disappear into the crowd that way
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Even if he didn’t catch the show in the morning, the captain never missed Kevin and Becca’s evening broadcast
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Tom stops a moment and points so he can catch his breath
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He wondered where she was now, playing in the snows of Kugenzglaw? Or did she experience one winter and head right back down to her old place down Sinbara point? What if she’d come up to the Wild Catch last Nightday?
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Johnny trailed Nancy, trying to quickly dodge the students faster than she was so he could catch up to her
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Homemade traps are easy to make that catch any type of insect
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Before that and the Wild Catch, I was afraid I could get bored here
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“What are we going to do with it when we catch it?”
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«We have to catch up with her,» Herndon said, «That’s our only chance
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She’s not exactly the best catch
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Just drop me off there and I’ll catch a coach
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She could catch a lakerunner from wherever the coach would drop her on the north shore
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After running down several blocks, they came to a stop and tried to catch their breath
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The catch is fiddly, but I manage it second time, and open the door
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I lean against the cupboards, half my brain trying to catch up
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He could catch up with Tahlmute
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doostEr immediately sent Estwig home with the kedas, he and Tahlmute could catch a streetcar
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«So what’s the catch Ajarn?» Tattoos weren’t really her thing but she understood enough to know that although they usually worked, there was always a sting in the tail
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It looked like these longleaf hangleaves would wait for full dark to start furling, as long as there were still a few red photons to be had, they would try and catch them
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‘Did they catch whoever it was?’
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Enough to catch up on 6 months mortgage arrears in one go, get the debt collectors off his back
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You’ve been busy studying the planet too, there’s a lot to catch up on there
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«Too much to catch up on there, I’m just following the details of the evolutionary sequence, that’s been my study
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’ I told her as she puts it round my neck and, brushing my hair out of the way, fiddles with the catch
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Tom managed to catch a glimpse of her leaving the car park
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I catch a glint of water behind round the edge of a beautifully clipped yew hedge
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’ I said, my voice cracking as my emotions catch up now that the pressure is off to a large extent
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of his thoughts and floating away before he could catch hold of them
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Keogh stumbled to catch it
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«They’ll never catch up with Hardway and the rest of them
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Probably can’t catch us if we keep moving at this speed,» Phipps said, «but we’ll have to stop if we actually find anything and we want to secure it
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We’ll catch up once this play is over
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He didn’t stand in the doorway as though he might catch some ideological disease from the infidel
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New hopes: Themis, the aerobics instructor, has invited the whole class to a restaurant tomorrow night! Needless to say, I will join the party and I already wonder what I could do to catch his attention
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I relate this to Amy when I phone her for our usual catch up call, which is a mistake as I rapidly discover
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«What’s our ETA to the terminus? Will they catch up before we make it?»
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As the twelfth chime hits the air, everyone shouts Happy New Year, and I catch Nick’s eye
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There is another catch involved in this process
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I also agree with Vincef that a clandestine operation is the only way we’ll catch the wizards themselves
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The click of a safety catch
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Thru all of it he was terrified that someone was going to come on live and catch him at it
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He stopped and waited for her to catch up, joined arms with her
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You need to catch this tendency now
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He could simply sit, talk to the stars, drink, and maybe catch a word or two from that bloody moon
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‘I’ve just arrived in Bristol and wanted to catch you before you went out anywhere
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As passed us at full speed, going uphill like it was nothing while I was advised, just because it has been offered doesn’t mean we struggled to catch our breath and gasping for air
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While there is nothing wrong with having usually catch up with them at the clubhouse later and their fruit and sipping on energy drinks, skip the water on the first advice has been pretty useful
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children had already rushed out with Shibani to catch a
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OK, so she was too caught up in running the ship to immediately catch on to what was happening here
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«Like I said, catch the spheelunge and cut it open
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while they catch their salt laced breath
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catch upon the candle flame and snap
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She was lucky enough to catch some packets of real traffic
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She parked the probe in the upper branches of a tree far above where humans could climb, and where it could catch the fringes of a beam from one small globe far down the hill
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Drifts of lazy smoke catch the beam
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His mind was trying to play catch up
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Flakes of dull white paint catch in the breeze
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just catch her cold and then it will be me who has to look after
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The chance that he would actually catch up with them was too remote to contemplate, but as there was nothing else he could do that made any sense at all, it gave him a goal
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If there were any thonga around he could catch them in this brush, he couldn’t get close enough to the herds on the open plain
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If he hasn’t found a way to catch at least one of us in a few hours he’ll lose interest
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‘Yes … it would also be a good idea for you to spend the morning in bed – catch up on some sleep
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«Unless they catch me
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They will eat inglethors if they catch them
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What chased it probably would have been a nice meal if they could catch it in the dark, if they dared go out there
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He wanted to catch them in the most
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There was no mid day meal that day, they were in the middle of a featureless nowhere with nothing to eat but ribbonleaves and dtairs unless they could catch and kill a lentosaur
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Steve stood there trying to catch his breath
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He places the platter on my lap and stands ready to catch it if I should drop it
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who catch an idea and shut their eyes
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out of the sky, felt cold draughts catch
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He looks a bit wobbly to my eyes and although I daresay I couldn’t catch him if he fell over, at least I could raise the alarm
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They do not catch the toes with their fingers, instead they rest their forearms on the toes with the elbows straight
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Catch your toes with your outstretched hands and while
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Those two words *very slowly’, in connection with the lowering of the legs will catch most of you out at first
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I catch the odd word which seems to mean something but without any great understanding
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they might catch a glimpse of the truth
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We turn to see Gilla trying to catch her breath
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I was quite taken aback and shot upright just in time to catch myself reflected in two pairs of mirrored lenses before reeling into two pairs of maroon shorts and almost passing out
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’ Gilla suggested, ‘You don’t want to catch it on anything
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However, she responds to my instruction and, at a steady canter, allows Adamant to catch up with us
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About a half hour later, as they headed east to catch up with Jake, the sky above was suddenly filled with the lost 300; they had laid a trap and now sprung it
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By the time I catch up with Sefir, Berndt has settled her in a makeshift stall, hobbling her more from the point of view of preventing her doing herself any damage than anything else, as he assures me quickly
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Since Ava wasn’t around to catch him, he keyed in some override codes and enabled administration rights to his desk eye
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These are the small things that might catch you in making a big mistake with
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We shook hands, waved to each other and then I ran to catch up with my chauffeur
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But there was enough room on deck for three crew and a good catch with nets and baskets stored for and aft
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We tidied up and were walking between the boats along the jetty with our catch when a tourist whipped out his digital and took a flash photo of the local fishing folk coming home after a long day hunting the fish
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«I came in here to try and be with my husband,» she said, «and the main reason I’m not engrossed in this is because you can’t spare the time to catch me up
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‘Give in?’ he asked, as I try to catch my breath between laughing and struggling to escape
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But when she appears, she looks quite ordinary … obviously not performing … I wonder where they’re going – some operatic society event, perhaps? I’m just about to turn away when I become transfixed – he’s holding her hand! Gobsmacked, I watch as he opens the door for her to get into the passenger seat, and I catch an exchange of smiles between them which stops me in my tracks
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It’s not that I don’t want Alastair here … dear God, never that … but it’s all happened so very fast that I haven’t had time to catch up with myself
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just about duck, forget try to catch it
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like cricket,’ Ali said, still trying to catch his breath
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After exercises, Ish did catch and field practice
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He could catch only when the ball
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• Cinch Gopher Trap has a metal plate with a cinch lasso which catches the gophers
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A sword catches the top of my ear
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… Joanna pregnant … that clobbers me right between the eyes and I pause, the cup halfway to my mouth while my brain catches up … but that was what Dan always wanted
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This flea trap also catches roaches on its sticky mat
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He looks out the window, catches a glimpse of an unsmiling policeman with a machine gun cradled in his arms
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When our spirit catches the Word, we are able to call those things
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He turns to see where the dog has got to and we wait while Buster catches up with us before climbing over the stile into the field
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The nervousness catches him off-guard as he’s truly mesmerized by her
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But then, something catches his attention
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Love, the fleeting glance that catches hold,
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but she cups her hand, catches it,
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ensuring the leavers were not cocked and the safety catches were
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“Never mind that, if the Alderfolk catches us we are all in trouble
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A messenger bird catches up with us as we ride back towards the wasteg
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A tear catches in the leather creases of his ancient eyes
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A warm breeze catches at my hair
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The bullet catches him in the chest
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Her hair catches in will-o’-the-wisp claws,
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He catches glimpses of the women he loves
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that catches a fraying strand of life
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I thought I was pretty street-wise having lived in Bristol for some years, but this man’s manner catches me on a nerve, making me uncomfortable
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‘How are you feeling?’ he asked as the fire finally catches
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A glare of sunlight catches my attention and I watch puzzled as we draw nearer to the cause of this brightness … astonished, I see a vast greenhouse complex
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Berndt catches the end of her statement as he comes into the room
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‘Go and give Gary a hand unloading the stuff from the car, please, Ben?’ That catches Abi’s attention for a moment
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Ali, no shots, give them catches
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Alastair catches my eye as he raises his glass and I blush again but for a totally different reason this time
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latches and catches, it was designed to prevent the delivery of more
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It’s not until I’m getting undressed for bed several hours after this that my brain catches up with my emotions
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wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the
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wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart
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He catches my hand and kisses it, looking at me over it, his eyes almost begging me to understand
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He catches the tub with his upper arm, feels the pressure of contact and withdraws, moving his right arm across his twisting body to steady the thing before it makes any noise, but he is too slow
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He catches a glimpse of someone peering in through the bay window
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Then, when something happens, when some random action catches Billy’s attention, the hands on the clock sneak forward in five minute increments
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» Maggie settles back into her own chair and catches the weather bulletin
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After a few seconds grappling with another question he hurries forward and catches up with Sergeant Miller by the swing doors at the entrance to the canteen
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Alex catches a flicker of light from the portable television behind the bar
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A Saab rag top catches his eye at a good price
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As he stands he catches sight of the torn knee in his jeans
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The lane twists and dips past Hoops restaurant, turning sharply left, and as the Mondeo swings through the curves and Alex catches a flash of brake lights up ahead, Billy starts to feel nauseous
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He catches a shower of sparks from her eyes and he lets them fall onto his upturned palms
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He catches the wise in their own
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about whatever catches your attention, and trust
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about whatever catches your atte
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Desa used a few fingers of her hidden hand on the base strings with a string section patch gently in the background while Wuffs began swirling and twirling and hurling the lween, up into a silence [indoors or during Nightday, this is when the other spotlights come on] til he catches it and then she can use impact notes on the visible side, Leshar starts to play and the intro to HarvestHenge 151-13 is over
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Safety catches off
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A row of framed photos on a far wall catches her eye
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Mark catches her as she drops to her knees in the sand
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It is as if, as you let go, your true self catches you and sustains you
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And something catches Alice’s fancy, for when it comes time for her to leave she asks her husband if he would mind her staying on “for just another day or two
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So it rather catches the public’s attention when the following lost and found ad appears:
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” said Hugh as he pulled back the catches, both positioned on one side of the hatch
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“It’s okay, Ria, I’ve shut it down and released the catches already
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Chris unfastened the four catches that held the metal shield over the beacon
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“Not yet, sir, but it will by the time I’ve finished with it” chuckled Fletcher, tapping it with the wrench, “The main piston has been knocked out of place and now it catches on the casing
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«We have been told there are good catches to be had here
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“Keep that cross guard at an angle, to make sure it catches the blade,” he advised
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One thing though son, if one of these catches you in the eye, well—” He shrugged to emphasise his point
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He commenced to explain that with diminishing catches, it was increasingly necessary to divert to the port of Limon for purchases of fish to fulfill a contract for bi-weekly deliveries of red snapper to Tampa, Florida
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Once Piers had disappeared through the hatch, Troy slammed the cover back in place, throwing the catches with far more force than was necessary
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By touching on plate, this circuit catches AC mains hum
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They re-closed their luggage and, before leaving the room, Elizabeth plucked two hairs from her head and looped one around the catches on each of their suitcases, so that if they were opened, the strands of hair would be broken
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» Gives the aspirin bottle a little toss in the air, catches it in one hand
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Again this other girl catches my attention
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He had learned from discussions with Frau Vollmer that all the boats were required to unload their catches at the government-run fishery at a larger town down the coast, where they also were permitted to purchase their allotment of fuel
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A very interesting dish catches my eye
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But he catches you at everything you do, and he’ll catch you tomorrow
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He catches it and bites it
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When Christina catches my eye, she beckons to me, smiling, so my mother and I cross the Pit floor
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A portrait on the opposite wall catches my attention
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But approaching the gate are a few moving specks—silver, when the light catches them
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It catches the end of his chin, but not hard enough to do any damage
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A flash of light catches my eye—lightning
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While candle catches shadow of my hat
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If the spent fuel pool catches fire,
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“But in this era of fiscal austerity, if a detective catches a case and there are cross-over crimes during the course of the investigation, he’s stuck cleaning up the mess
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2 Whoever regards dreams is like him who catches at a shadow, and follows after the wind
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“The reason why guys die is because they think they’re talking to a hot chick and then she catches them off guard
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Devlin drops his camera and catches the hot bulb before it hits his face
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I’m not surprised, but one of them catches my eye
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Jaden goes under the 59th Street Bridge and something catches his attention
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He catches up to the SR-71 and is flying in front of it
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Something catches Jaden’s attention above him; he looks up towards his right on the ceiling
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(If the promotion catches on anyway and the stuff sells for mega-bucks, well, what can one do?) Artists attempt to express their feelings about society, themselves, and their convictions
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He catches the octopus’ last split second screech before it is decapitated
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Jaden laughs as he quickly catches up to Bellona
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He leaves the insides of the octopus and catches up to Bellona waiting above the clouds for him
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Jaden catches his balance and runs then leaps over an open pit of lava coming from the split in the ground
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the other, and if the pursuer catches his target, the tables turn and the
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It also includes an eighty-two-foot long canoe that catches the attention of all tourists
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It is amazing to observe the agility with which the bald eagle catches the salmon without interrupting its flight
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Zachary catches me before my hands touch the ground, laughs as he lays me down, and with extra caution, he moves on top of me
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“Um …” His question catches me unaware
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13 And whatever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, who hunts and catches any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust
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He catches my hair clip before it drops on the ground
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Now he catches fish and talks with his friends in the petrol
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Before she could react any further, Scar spun free of her sword and kicked out, catching Silence in the stomach and sending her flying backward
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I have found this system to really work in attracting, catching, and killing flies
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’ I promised, catching up with her
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«Huh?» doostEr wasn’t catching this
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’ I said, catching the eye of the waitress
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‘Why? What’s happened?’ I asked, catching his mood
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’ Stephen said, catching hold of me and pulling me towards him
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’ I said, catching the revealing glance that passes swiftly between the two of them
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’ I started, my brain only then catching up with the last part of his comment
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She should have used more time explaining and less time catching up on sex and breakfast
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I felt rough fibres catching at the corners of my mouth as though I were being force fed a winding sheet, and then, as stars started to explode across my eyelids, I realised with a flood of relief that my head and shoulders were still covered by the sacking
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He’s probably busy catching up on his workload
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Catching the wizards unawares and trapped within their compound where they can physically be brought to justice
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Sitting behind Nick, catching my breath, I contemplate the back of his head while Rose tells me how warm the beautiful shawl Nick gave her for Christmas is
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While they waited for breakfast he tried to convince her there could be some hope of catching that paperwork before Venna did
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’ She said, catching Iain’s eye
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evenings catching up on what he had missed till now
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of conversations across the grass, catching noise and clattering glass,
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catching reflections from the coloured lights
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catching swirls of dust on thermals
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catching eyes and flies
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folded neatly, catching lines of dust in creases,
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each flush of the moth’s wings, catching the feather spikes
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catching up with Alderfolk Pottypears
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The evening mist is gathering over the fields now, catching the last rays of the setting sun
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‘Had a lot of catching up to do
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I breathe too, catching snowflakes on the tip
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I hadn’t thought about the men catching up with us on the mainland …
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Mikri followed from a distance, sometimes catching up but when I reached the end of the lane, he stopped, watched me for a little, shook a paw, then turned and plodded back to the house
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«You’ve got quite a bit of catching up to do,» he said, reaching thru the mesh that was still all she wore
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I left Aristethes unconscious, sitting upright, head back, mouth ajar, catching flies
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Garth blinks in surprise, reaching out and gently catching the stone
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’ I commented, catching up with Berndt, who has got a little ahead of me
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Catching his drift quickly, Daniel got up and made a show of taking James and showing him the camp
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This would be an incredible method to catching your love in a lie as they tell you one thing and
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And then there are the more simplistic methods of catching people in their lies
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He suddenly saw that the others were catching up to them, so they continued on quickly
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Catching the odd bass is one thing, but I’ve never managed anything other than my own time, and besides, he’s hardly going to take me on in my current state of health, is he!”
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He rushed to her, catching her before she hit the ground
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Rays of sunlight were catching the diamond teardrop earrings of a stunningly beautiful young lady in the opposite stand and it was these bursts of pure radiance that were catching Terry’s attention
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So here he was, sitting in front of the fire warming up and catching up on his notes
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I remembered reading somewhere that it was the last rays of the sun catching Mount Hymettos that told Socrates the time had come to drink hemlock and die
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‘We will start with catching practice
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Keep this tip in mind: fish with two flies since this doubles your chances of catching one
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and me, and we had a tough time catching it
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C’mon inside,’ he said, catching his breath
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vagabond strolled through the square, catching sight of the protest
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Her only means of catching him would be to stay with him every hour he wasn’t on duty
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They spent time catching up on all the events of the past weeks while they waited for their food
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“You are advancing very well my love,” she spun and shot out her leg catching him off guard
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Catching her gist, and a shrewd judge of character, Alexei made a decision
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Rays of sunlight were catching the diamond teardrop
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and it was these bursts of pure radiance that were catching Terry’s
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For a start off, you don’t see your friends very often and secondly, there’s no point you coming back here and catching the bug off me
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He sighed deeply; everything that happened was catching up to him
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‘Yes … I did, didn’t I?’ he said with a rueful sigh, a yawn catching him mid sigh
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that a lot of this work was actually catching up on tasks not done
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be off catching Sprites
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“Notoriously, I should think, by your tone and vulgar language,” retorted Mandy, then she sniffed and wrinkled her nose as if catching whiff of an offensive odor and pushed past him without a backward glance
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Rising on tiptoe and leaning over as far as she could without catching her jacket on the branches, she peered down at the shore below her
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The passenger window is open a couple of inches and the sound of the wind catching on slabs of metal and glass rushes into the car
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The pair of warblers she had seen before sang from the safety of their bush as the sun shone down, its rays catching the blades of the shovels every now and then and making them glint
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Her chest heaving with the effort of catching her breath, she risked a glance back down the path – Mickey was nowhere in sight
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“I’ve not had much experience in catching Dragons without
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Billy is out of breath as he reaches the top of the short rise to the car park, and stumbles, catching his shoulder on the edge of one of the car park ticket machines
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’ The news presenter said, catching his attention
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She knew Althart would be late but she liked it here and wasn’t adverse to spending a few hours lounging and catching up with a few casual acquaintances
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The dead weight stuck in the doorway, one leg catching on the doorpost … Ozzie had wrenched again, hauling on the now insufficient garments half clothing the body
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’ Claire said, catching my confused frown
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The cook’s shouts told him she ducked thru the kitchen, but he knew he had no chance of catching her after that
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together, other times ducking and weaving in and out, catching arms and flipping
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As Abi leaned forward to remove his tiles, Ben reached for the cushion on the sofa nearby and, with practised skill, he threw it at his sister, catching her full in the stomach …
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‘You …!’ she screeched, catching the cushion up from the floor where it landed and threw it back
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swing, in turn catching the brunt of its force
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They watched closely, when his staff hand was behind and the opposite foot was forward, he pivoted the staff up across behind him and catching hold with his free hand and setting his grip ‘just so,’ continued his stride smoothly and without disruption with the staff now swinging in the new hand
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catching himself with his hands against the gravel parking lot
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«Mike please!» She pleaded catching hold of his hand before he could move clear of the bed
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«Who in the world is that?» Mike asked catching the movement of someone crossing the bridge
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catching gear, or felt the bat in my hands
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He took awhile catching on that children aren’t as common as he thought
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Momentarily he looked down at her, his eyes were intense, and he was having trouble catching his breath
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She did this again and again, catching over a dozen of them
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» Catching the irritation in Emma’s eyes, she changed her half-choking tone to one of defense
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“Soon,” he said, while catching up with her and kissing the back of her neck
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Jesse took a seat at the kitchen table and asked, «So did you manage to convince him to move?» catching her off guard
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Suddenly as her toe hit the third step, the slipper stuck and she was propelled into Jim’s arms; catching her about the waist, he lowered her to the floor
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They lay beside each other, catching their breath, “When you stop by here on your way back from Zhlindu, lets do this again,” she said
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time – like catching a mouse
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and was now catching her up
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The fear she was watching in his face, slipped to his chest, catching his every breath
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«Catching you, you mean, I suppose you don’t think the papers in this office are confidential?»
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He had no chance of catching that ball it was hit that good
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Where Johnson had failed to stop Heather, he succeeded with me, catching
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The high plaza’s along the upper spine had awnings catching sunlight
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driving that day by catching the car train link from
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Unluckily for Hansel and Gretel, however, the sugar candy cottage belonged to an old witch, her trap for catching unknowing children
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But the glow vanished, and he dismissed it as a trick of his mind; the hammer most likely catching the light of mage-fire or a distant lighting strike
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but he had little trouble catching the attention of the
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His chair slid back into place, catching him as he floated downward and saving him just moments before he would have crashed to the floor
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It falls short onto the counter, not that she would have caught it anyway
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“It caught us all by surprise
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adulterous woman who was caught in the act of adultery
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We were fellow exiles starting a great industry with our alien knowledge and got caught up in it
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Slugs and snails enter and once inside will get caught in the solution
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It was the eyes that lured me in, but the smile was what caught me
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Whenever I feel it vibrate, I race over to see if I caught something to eat, but then it’s always him just putzing around
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Ackers caught Nancy studying the ceiling as they walked
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When the locals pray at night, they all include the same prayer: may those caught in the teeth of the Krummling die silently and without fear
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A bead caught in the treads of his sandal
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He actually caught her in the air, held her up for a moment, and then threw her to the ground at his feet
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Today the young are caught up with their careers, the middle-aged with position and prestige and everyone with competition and resultant insecurity
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Scar’s breath caught in his throat
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’ Stephen muttered as we reach the car; he’s got one of those automatic unlocking devices on his car and, by the time the crowd have caught up with us, I am in the front seat buckling on the seat belt and he is starting the engine
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He was caught already! How did this happen? The United Order wasn’t supposed to know any of their real identities, let alone where Johnny lived
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Once she caught her breath she found some tiny sticks more by feel than sight
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He listened as the beeps came closer; he was about to be caught
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Where did that explosion come from? What was going on? Who had authorized all of this? With no answers to any of his questions, Ackers was forced to take some kind of action or wait under the desk to be caught by someone
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If the mood caught him, he would depopulate entire cities
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His first order of business was to find out who was in the room without being caught
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There was nothing to do but wait to be caught
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She caught a note of the surf in the background and a single pang of homesickness struck her
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She’s so caught up in getting the Heavenly Mother in that she doesn’t like to be interrupted
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When the whale was caught, Archimedes hopped off the dying whale and joined the crew of whaling humans
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He twisted round in his chair, caught the attention of one of
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He hadn’t caught on down here, since that was decades before the first Brazilian moved here
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He caught up with Tahlmute at Waterfront Place where they caught a streetcar for the south docks
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Dave finishes cleaning a fish he has just caught, takes a strip of the flesh and re-baits the hook, tosses it over the side
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» I inadvertently caught his eye when he said this
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‘She didn’t survive infancy though – there was a nasty strain of measles going the rounds and she caught it
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He also thought that he caught the sound of something swishing rhythmically amongst
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«So I guess we’re pretty much caught up now?» she asked
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Nothing caught his eye as
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There’s some question about whether the man had been caught with his hand in the till which will need looking into, but the net result is that Sadler’s story no longer holds water
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‘You’ve caught the sun, Liz
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She caught a
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Glenelle knew it would give a mortal a lethal burn if one was caught in the blast from an early 22nd century fusion shuttlecraft
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Her act caught the attention of a driver of a delivery van passing by, who pulled over to the curb beside her
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«The one her cherub thought she caught
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«But she caught the cherub
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The words that he wanted to conjure up caught at the back
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We sent Stephen to my parents as soon as we realised, he was early teens by then and it would have been very nasty if he had caught it, though he had been inoculated against it, I believe
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Tig didn’t have time to look away from his assigned sector off the ‘dragger’s right shoulder, but Parker must have hit something with those rounds because he caught a flash out the corner of his eye
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As they entered the transit, the plasma caught and trailed off the spikes on their three-dozen red hulls
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There was something nasty going round, can’t remember what it was now, but he caught it and died very quickly and totally unexpectedly
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I even caught a glimpse through my tears of one of our guards wiping a speck of dust from his cheek
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Then The Man turned to Menachem and spoke menaces softly as he caught his breath
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«In the big picture, yes,» he said, «But in day-to-day life, we haven’t been very caught up in religion
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Begrudgingly he had to admit that in spite of the bats-and-spiders decor of their systems, the Kassikan had caught up with what they had on the Lula
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If this was ready when the Kassikan flew Ernesto’s body to the north, they could have caught up with the airship before the tunnel and brought him back
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Nothing caught his eye as being suitable, but there was a sign, faded and hanging at an angle because one of the cable ties holding it to a chain link fence had snapped
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There’d been a shadow … that’s right … she’d realised just too late … half turned, the blow had caught her on the temple … and nothing
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Just when Abram is about to run the knife through, an angel cries out, “STOP!” and a ram caught in a bush is provided
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How on earth do you know which ones to press and when? Then the array of dials set into the surface above the steering wheel caught her eye … what did they all mean? She’d been in taxis many times but never in a personal vehicle like this
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He grinned as he caught her peering at some of the dials
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She caught a brief reflection from within the hood, a pale white howling light cast back at her from his eyes, a reflection of the moon and his ice cold soul
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focused on what’s wrong with them, they get caught up in an
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I caught a whiff that I was trying to “fix myself” to please others
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of oratory, storytelling at the Storymoja Hay Festival, where he was caught up in a tragedy and unfortunate crossfire that lead to his passing
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The words that he wanted to conjure up caught at the back of his throat and his first sound was little more than a muffled cough
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She stayed astride him a few minutes afterward, keeping his with hers and caressing his face as she caught her breath
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which grandfather and his friends had caught in an old
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OK, so she was too caught up in running the ship to immediately catch on to what was happening here
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prawns caught at the city lake
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he caught the sun’s glare that summer and tanned
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they had caught the tails of a whirlwind, of flying romance,
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A tear caught the limp flesh on his cheek
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She caught him in her fist
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sloping into wire caught tufts of white and black,
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While others slept he caught flakes
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Both girls had been on beasts leaving early in the stampede and were probably ahead of him, though he hadn’t caught a glimpse of either in the darkness since their thongas bolted with them
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He actually caught some inglethors by the time it got toward Noonsleep and toasted them up on a little fire
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He caught sight of the top of it over the brush, it was as far above the ground as a human’s head and it was tawny yellow
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Several times she caught him watching her intently
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On a visit to one of the more unstable areas of the Himalaya, the Ambassador and her entourage were caught up in an avalanche caused by flash floods
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folk was one thing but been caught by the Travel Device twice
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a deer caught in the baying convergence of dogs and coats
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They had caught up on what he had talked about with Luray, the ephemeral nature of Earth life
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A real nice crossbow and some arrows caught his eye, silent, but deadly
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They soon caught a whiff of the reason, more thongas were passing thru the brush not far to the southeast
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‘… through here … she’s had a bit of a nasty time of it … was nearly caught up in the eruption in Italy
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When the two shuttles take off a minute apart, it is so cool!” He was watching her and getting caught up in her enjoyment and her reactions to the movie
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Caught between the spirit of the tree
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“When these two got caught by the circus, they had learned to
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A slight smile appeared as her lips parted; and then alarm spread across her face, she stopped suddenly as tho she was caught doing something she shouldn’t
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of windows, caught in the softly peeling wind
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Every ball was caught whilst another ball was sent up; at the
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Michael caught his arm and swung him over to his side
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“Got caught out in that really bad snow”
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Daniel and Kate spotted Sam and caught his eye
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«Once they’ve caught on maybe that will work
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A puddle of water they didn’t notice in their exhaustion caught them
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The leese was caught off guard by the cave in, and it’s lurch allowed Alan to scramble a bit farther onto the shore with a mighty yank from Luray
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like the wings of a butterfly caught in the light
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She caught my eye and smiled
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Although he didn’t say it, I get the general feeling that he feels it should have been him and not Joris who died … as if sensible, down to earth Berndt would be caught prancing around on the rail … I feel a cold shiver down my spine as I contemplate how I would feel if it had been Berndt and not Joris …
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Caught by the Fuzz
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caught by the boys in blue, hot
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And from inside I caught the smell of cleaning fluids, lunch and the sound of gentle, delicate music
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“He’s just caught up in his dragonet
Are you finding it difficult to understand people when they use the word catch in a sentence?
The word catch is unique in the way that it can be used. It is often heard in sports such as Baseball, Basketball, Cricket and other games where a ball may be thrown and caught (the past and past participle of catch).
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Phrasal Verbs – Catch
Catch up
To become aware of things that have happened recently.
- I was able to catch up on what has occurred during the past few weeks by reading the newspaper.
To see and speak with someone again after a long time.
- I was able to catch up with Joan over the weekend.
- Let’s try to catch up over the weekend.
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Catch me
To capture a criminal or to tag someone in a game.
- The police will have to catch me before I go to prison.
- Let’s see who can catch me in a game of hide and seek.
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Catch fire
This phrasal verb is used to describe the serious action of something that begins to burn, either by accident or intentionally.
- Be careful, don’t put the heater too close to the clothes, we don’t want them to catch fire.
- It will take some time for the wet wood to catch fire.
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Catch it
Usually used in sport, the action of trapping a ball in one or both hands.
- Make sure you catch it, when I throw the ball to you.
Also commonly used when speaking about spreading a cold.
- Don’t come to close to me, I have a cold and don’t want you to catch it.
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Catch on
Used to describe when someone suddenly understands something they hadn’t earlier.
- It took Kate a while to catch on to what had happened to her keys.
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- Use the word Catch in a sentences
Sentence Examples
The catch in your bracelet may have unclasped.
«Try to catch me a novena
You’ll catch cold like that.
For example, this is a catch picture, walking on the Pont Neuf or something like that and a man is walking his black and white Capuchin monkey and a woman’s coming along with her…in black and white of all things… with her baby in there and the two of them are seeing each other.
«I’m trying to work without a hierarchy of the catch in the middle «and then something else later on.»
Most we could do is ship him home. But, in order to do that, we would have to catch this man with the stolen diamonds, right in the palm of his hand.
How am I supposed to catch the bus?
There was a man here and when I wanted to talk to him he ran away and I couldn’t catch him.
I catch the guy who’s getting away with it!
If you’re not here to help, we’ll catch up later.
I can’t wait to catch up.
Hope they catch something.
I’m trying to catch some food, but something got to it before me, it looks like.
The wolf needed to catch and eat the lamb in order to survive but he fell in love with the lamb.
Is there a really big ghost that you need me to help you catch?
I’ll just go catch the vase ghost like the way I caught that water ghost.
You said that they were able to catch her all thanks to Tae Gong Shil’s help, right?
A doctor and a warrior, quite a catch.
catch this man Jessup with the money, we’ll have our killer.
Dearest sun, please shine, so that I don’t catch a cold.
We shall catch him and earn a hundred ducats as a reward.
«Let her catch her breath, Rasmus the Executioner, and loosen the screw a little at a time, as she confesses her sins.»
You’re soaking wet. Get undressed or you’ll catch your death.
«If you hurry you can catch her lover before he slips out of her room. «
I am the artistic Galibaldi marksman But no … they will catch a cold … so I’ll go.
«Dry up before you catch cold!»
No. But someday he will catch you.
Everybody look for the Cisco Kid and nobody catch him.
«Let’s give him a fish to catch.»
I hope the police catch them soon.
I’m tell ng you, I’m a good catch myself.
Instead of hanging around this dump, why don’t you grab the Lexington Ave. local and go up and catch the show?
All right. I catch on to why a horse, why a chicken, why a this, why a that.
I no catch on to why a duck.
«If you fall down in the stairs, M.Turner, «I won’t even try to catch you…»
If they catch me! You hard-headed fool!
What if they do catch you?
No, we’ll take them down to the cabin by the oak. — Maybe we’ll catch the rest of them.
Now I suppose you’ll catch cold!
The catch in your bracelet may have unclasped.
«Try to catch me a novena
You’ll catch cold like that.
For example, this is a catch picture, walking on the Pont Neuf or something like that and a man is walking his black and white Capuchin monkey and a woman’s coming along with her…in black and white of all things… with her baby in there and the two of them are seeing each other.
«I’m trying to work without a hierarchy of the catch in the middle «and then something else later on.»
Most we could do is ship him home. But, in order to do that, we would have to catch this man with the stolen diamonds, right in the palm of his hand.
How am I supposed to catch the bus?
There was a man here and when I wanted to talk to him he ran away and I couldn’t catch him.
I catch the guy who’s getting away with it!
If you’re not here to help, we’ll catch up later.
I can’t wait to catch up.
Hope they catch something.
I’m trying to catch some food, but something got to it before me, it looks like.
The wolf needed to catch and eat the lamb in order to survive but he fell in love with the lamb.
Is there a really big ghost that you need me to help you catch?
I’ll just go catch the vase ghost like the way I caught that water ghost.
You said that they were able to catch her all thanks to Tae Gong Shil’s help, right?
A doctor and a warrior, quite a catch.
catch this man Jessup with the money, we’ll have our killer.
Dearest sun, please shine, so that I don’t catch a cold.
We shall catch him and earn a hundred ducats as a reward.
«Let her catch her breath, Rasmus the Executioner, and loosen the screw a little at a time, as she confesses her sins.»
You’re soaking wet. Get undressed or you’ll catch your death.
«If you hurry you can catch her lover before he slips out of her room. «
I am the artistic Galibaldi marksman But no … they will catch a cold … so I’ll go.
«Dry up before you catch cold!»
No. But someday he will catch you.
Everybody look for the Cisco Kid and nobody catch him.
«Let’s give him a fish to catch.»
I hope the police catch them soon.
I’m tell ng you, I’m a good catch myself.
Instead of hanging around this dump, why don’t you grab the Lexington Ave. local and go up and catch the show?
All right. I catch on to why a horse, why a chicken, why a this, why a that.
I no catch on to why a duck.
«If you fall down in the stairs, M.Turner, «I won’t even try to catch you…»
If they catch me! You hard-headed fool!
What if they do catch you?
No, we’ll take them down to the cabin by the oak. — Maybe we’ll catch the rest of them.
Now I suppose you’ll catch cold!
How do you use catch in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use catch in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for catch.
- Catch, please! (8)
- Catch him! (8)
- I catch at straws. (10)
- How I catch myself out! (4)
- Well, I shall catch it. (8)
- I did not catch you quite. (10)
- You catch what I am driving at? (10)
- I feared I never should catch you. (10)
- You catch hold of it and it snaps. (10)
- I undertake to catch you somewhere. (10)
- And he came here on purpose to catch Rose. (10)
- He prepared at once to catch the next train. (8)
- Kiomi said she hoped he would not catch me. (10)
- She felt his eyes suddenly catch hold of hers. (8)
- Thinking of her caused a catch of his breath. (10)
- You must decide quickly, to catch a boat train. (8)
- De Craye allowed her to catch Crossjay by herself. (10)
- What I mean is that I know too much to catch it by ear. (14)
- Now you will catch sight of her fan working in a minute. (10)
- It was too late to catch at a trifle to strain it to a tussle. (10)
- And I thought: But I will catch you yet, you nymph of perdition! (8)
- She could catch the coming mood in a man, and fit herself to it. (10)
- Catch a prize, and you will find you are at war with your species. (10)
- He thought the Catholic lord had gone a step or two to catch an eel. (10)
- He tried to catch what they were saying, but Aunt Juley was speaking. (8)
- Victor wished the Houses of Parliament to catch the beams of sunset. (10)
- Barto Rizzo is too clever for zis government, which cannot catch him. (10)
- She could not catch a syllable, yet she would have sworn to the context. (10)
- I might have missed a train, had there been any in the neighbourhood to catch. (2)
- He stooped eagerly, in his temperate way, to catch sight of her answering face. (10)
- The idea that the Tinleys strove to catch at her skirts made Arabella spiteful. (10)
- We made lords of them to catch them, and they grocers of us by way of a return. (10)
- It is an ill omen to catch a glimpse of the death receptacle when leaving a town. (21)
- He had to leave early by special express for London to catch the last train to Romfrey. (10)
- I love such evanescent and unimportunate glimpses of the world as I catch from my flying perch. (14)
- In a few minutes he would have to start to catch the only train that would get him home in time. (8)
- His habit of obedience, pride of apprehension, and the time to catch the train, forbade inquiry. (10)
- When he caught her she was smiling, lifting her face to catch the raindrops which were falling fast. (8)
- His business was to catch young gentlemen of family, and to turn them against their families, plainly. (10)
- She proposed it to him accordingly; but he did not catch at the measure so eagerly as she had expected. (4)
- His spirit, which had lagged a little after his body in stature, began, as his father said, to catch up. (9)
- Often in this little room, cosiest in the house, Jolyon would catch a moment of communion with his father. (8)
- He rolled a ball for souls, excited like kittens, to catch it, and tumbling into the dozens of vacant pits. (10)
- Still, however, affection was glad to catch at any reasonable excuse for not hurrying on the wretched moment. (4)
- She could just catch a glimpse over those tall railings of the low white house with its green outside shutters. (8)
- Gyp turned the bust a little, to catch the light on its far cheek; a letter was disclosed between it and the oak. (8)
- He could catch the sound of her breathing close to the door, like the breathing of a creature threatened by danger. (8)
- The imitator fails invariably to catch the spirit of them, and in this instance is driven to an ancient subterfuge. (16)
- Christian listened at the wall again and again, trying to catch some voice, some sign of life from the Hofmann flat. (12)
- Rose laughed at his fruitless efforts to get free; but Ferdinand meditatively appeared to catch a sentiment in them. (10)
- In return, they inquired whether he would come with them and hunt the voice, saying that they would catch it for him. (10)
- He could not bring himself to move while there was still a chance to catch a glimpse of her face, a sign from her hand. (8)
- His address to her was hurried, rather uncertain, coherent enough between the drop and the catch of articulate syllables. (10)
- And here she laughed a little at herself, showing a charming little peculiarity in the catch of her upper lip on her teeth. (9)
- Then, as full realization begins to dawn on him, he runs to the bay window, craning his head to catch sight of the front door. (8)
- They were genuine, or she would better have been able to second her efforts to catch a distinct vision of his retreating figure. (10)
- Near the gates of the Hillford station, he passed Wilfrid and Adela, hurrying to catch the up-train, and received no recognition. (10)
- What is it like for me here, do you think, where everybody hates and despises me, and would catch me and put me in prison, perhaps. (8)
- A poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing. (4)
- Why, your poor fellows have to come all the way hither to catch even a herring, while we have them fresh from the sea every morning. (14)
- Had she done so, she would have failed to catch Wilfrid, whose soul thirsted for poetical refinement and filmy delicacies in a woman. (10)
- Her head reeled with the strain of it, and the effort to catch his voice among the hubbub of all those cheery, common, happy-go-lucky sounds. (8)
- But we are the elect, who see signification and catch flavour; and we are reminded of an insatiable monster how sometimes capricious is his gorge. (10)
- Now it would skirt the garden-walls of houses, where we might catch a glimpse through a doorway, and see a priest pacing in the chequered sunlight. (2)
- Mr. Darcy, who was leaning against the mantelpiece with his eyes fixed on her face, seemed to catch her words with no less resentment than surprise. (4)
- Philosophy did not seem to catch her mind; and fine phrases encountered a rueful assent, more flattering to their grandeur than to their influence. (10)
- Wherever they catch sight of Egoism they pitch their camps, they circle and squat, and forthwith they trim their lanterns, confident of the ludicrous to come. (10)
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