He has a plane to catch to Nantucket.

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He will then fly to Moscow with England for the crucial fixture against Russia - a four-hour flight and three more time zones - four days later, before returning to London to catch his plane back to Los Angeles for the Galaxy's penultimate game of the season against New York the following evening.

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When we left at 04:00, desperate to catch the first plane out of Istanbul - direct flights to the UK were full so we had to go via Paris - the streets were eerily quiet.

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Maybe you took a few hundred quick strides through an airport concourse to catch a plane.

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We checked out of the hotel and hustled to catch a plane, where I could finally relax.

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OK. But the shoe insole vendor was in a hurry to catch a plane out of Boston.

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My ID is gone, and I have to catch a plane tomorrow morning.

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So, ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?

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The vendor explained that he had to catch a plane.

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