Sentence examples for caught the speaker from inspiring English sources

Live mikes caught the speaker complaining about a recent round to a sympathetic vice president.

The prime minister was pleased to see Caroline Lucas get to ask her question in PMQs after her "dazzling T-shirt she was wearing last week failed to catch the Speaker's eye", but he would not back her bid to have the Sun newspaper banned from the Parliamentary Estate.

So, Goudie catches the Speaker arriving home and tries to greet him at his car, but like a high-school prankster, Madigan drives off just as Goudie reaches the car door.

Next, Goudie and camera guy try to catch the Speaker at his district office and narrate an entertaining clip where you can see Madigan's workers silhouetted in door frames behind locked doors clearly talking about the annoying camera crew on the other side and what should be done about them.

Elizabeth Kolbert profiled Jones in January, and reported a key moment, in February 2007, when he caught the newly elected Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attention during a meeting of interest groups: "I knew I had to do something to get the room back," Jones told me.

His work has even caught the attention of notable motivational speaker Les Brown who said Dave's work "will transform your life".

Before Miliband had a chance to catch the eye of the Speaker, the prime minister was on the offensive.

If an MP wishes to speak they must "catch the eye of the Speaker" by "bobbing" in such a way as to get his attention.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn). said he caught House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in the hallway after the House vote and wished him a merry Christmas.

Such has been the problem for the great Jazz artists over the last thirty years, marginalized by the McMusic movement of the latter half of the 20th century that pushes spectacle over music to fill McStadiums where people pay prime dollar to sit a mile away from their deified megastars, watch them on big TVs and catch the decaying blasts of super-speakers to say they were "there".

Madam Speaker speculates that some MPs want to catch the early plane home.