Sentence examples for catches him about from inspiring English sources

In their last desperate struggle Ahab tries to spear the whale with his harpoon, but the rope catches him about the neck and Moby Dick drags him down into the depths, "and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago".

We had to stage an intervention when we caught him about to wear his Sunday best to Benediction on a Thursday.

The camera catches him at about the :20 mark of the video above.

The authorities caught him about a day later, after receiving a tip from a construction worker who worked alongside Mr. Lafrem on a project in Manhattan.

(My e-mail caught him about to leave for Paris to show his "small collection of Japanese freak-show banners" at an art exhibition).

Kivilev knew how much time he was losing when Ullrich, who left three minutes after him, caught him about two-thirds of the way.

Cameras catch him pottering about, even sitting on the toilet.

Fortunately, traffic was backed up, and I caught him in about seven hops.

Wearing the poker face that has become his signature look on lung-disabling climbs, Quintana burst away from the peloton with about 15 kilometers, or nine miles, to go and held the lead until Froome caught him with about six kilometers, or 3.73 miles, to go.

The social media star, real name Daniel O'Reilly, faced a flood of sexism and misogyny accusations after footage caught him joking about rape at a gig.

In his previous term, a cameraman caught him staggering about the site of a mass grave, at Kharkov, in Ukraine, of second-world-war Polish army officers.