• As she pitched forward, about to fall, someone caught her by her upper arms.
• How many times do you have to fall before someone catches you and stays around?
• He rushed forward towards the princess and caught her as she fell from her horse.

• She caught hold of the boy's collar and dragged him, pushing him into his bed.
• Jack caught hold of her arm and pulled her back to stand in front of him.
• I thought my worst fears had come true when someone just caught hold of my hand.

• Abby caught at his arm, and he started to push her away, then stopped himself.
• As he made to move off in search of new bandages, she weakly caught at his arm.
• Automatically, his own hands rose to catch at his master's arm.

• Four of their batsmen were caught from blazing shots by fielders stationed on the boundary rope.
• He lands them at around three quarters length, and then pitches the odd one up, seaming it away, and catching the batsmen, rooted to the crease, napping.
• Australia bowler Brett Lee dives to catch England batsman Andrew Strauss for 37.

• You don't want them looking at the table and thinking: Chelsea are too far ahead for us to catch them.
• However, once he got to third, Harvey and Templeman were just too far ahead for Westbrook to catch them.

• Speaking yesterday, Mr Ferguson said the law needed to be changed before anyone else was caught in the same situation.
• But there was always the danger that he would be caught in situations he could not easily explain.
• Would taxpayers have relief when faced with the situation of being caught in circumstances beyond their control?

• To their surprise they caught him with a soldier on Hampstead Heath.
• Do not be taken by surprise if you are caught for speeding or riding without helmets this week.
• Funnily enough, I was almost caught in a compromising situation earlier by one of the engineers.

• The unexpected attack caught him off guard and he landed on the porch with a thud.
• The bike was powerful - far more so than he had expected - and the unexpected force caught him off guard.
• Timms' move was so sudden, so unexpected, that it caught the woman completely by surprise.

• She chased him through the security gates and nearly caught her flowing skirt in the elevator.
• I once caught a scarf in a lift door as it closed and only just managed to heave it free and save myself from a gruesome end.
• Boys, nay men, need to remember to wipe the toothpaste from the corners of their mouth, the crumbs from their beards and not to catch their shirts in their flies.

Synonyms

• I raise my hand to smooth my hair back, catch some of it over my ear, but when I carry my hand near my hair it crackles and dances away in the dry wind.
• Her hair was caught back in a great net of silver, also dotted with diamonds.

• I don't usually watch a lot of local TV but happened to catch a programme last night about a farm with a herd of buffaloes.
• I've just caught the end of a brief TV programme about Sonia Lo, co-founder of A Recipe for Peace.
• I had caught the tail end of his performance - enough to give me but a small idea of the man.

• We all decided to head down to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to catch a screening of the movie Homepage.
• The center is also used for just getting off the streets or catching an afternoon movie on the big screen t.v. with surround sound.
• Maybe catching a movie will help iron out stress between friends.

• He even caught a glimpse of some movement out of the corner of his eye.
• I caught a glimpse of a clock and it read about two ten in the morning.
• I still recall one Sunday morning when I caught a glimpse of them outside.

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• ‘Be quiet, everyone,’ he said as he caught the drift of what was coming out of the juke box.
• Our hyper friendly waiter must have caught the drift of our chatter about geese and pigs, and soon joined in.
• But it was an effort for him to talk, his voice so low that I could not always catch what he said, and sometimes he would collapse back on to the bed trying to hide his exasperation.

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• He explores the space, catches its relationship and represents it in various forms.
• It really catches the feel of Dave's work.
• His mastery was in describing exciting events and in catching the flavor of the moment.

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• As he fell he caught his head on the edge of the bay dock leveller.
• I pictured a back-handed blow, a woman slumping, catching her head on a hard surface.
• I caught my leg on the corner of a little metal bench and I really started to bleed.

• With a sudden jolt, the primary engines caught and the ship sped skywards on a comet of light.
• He turned the car on, waiting for the engine to catch for a minute.
• The first two Toyota pickups we got into wouldn't start, even with eight men rocking them to get the engine to catch.

Synonyms

• New Zealand's fielding was also awful with several misfields and dropped catches.
• It was also an innings of great catches and easy misses.
• Countless runs were gifted away through shoddy fielding and innumerable dropped catches.

• The beaches of East Anglia maybe can't produce the numbers of cod they once did, but there are still good catches taken and big fish caught.
• At home catches of white fish have been poor over the last couple of weeks.
• Some stretches are very well stocked and if you're on fish, multiple catches are common.

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