Examples • If I catch you stealing my apples again, there'll be trouble! • Don't let him catch you reading his letters. • I caught him going through my bag. • We found some money lying on the ground. • They found their mother sitting in the garden. The present participle for two actions at the same time When two actions occur at the same time, and are done by the same person or thing, we can use a present participle to describe one of them.