Example sentences of "past [pers pn] and [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was about to skip past me and hit the bomb with the piece of wood — he had already raised it above his head and made the lunge — when I reached out and caught him round the waist . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ said Vic , striding past her and shutting the door of Prendergast 's room behind him . |
| 3 | The question was answered almost immediately because the man , who had followed Jean along the passage , now pushed past her and entered the kitchen . |
| 4 | Eb brushed past her and entered the back-kitchen . |
| 5 | And he pushed past her and opened the door and started running down the street towards the War Memorial Square and Ebenezer Chapel . |
| 6 | She darted past him and opened the door that led to the store-room , then helped somewhat ineffectually as he dragged the mattress through and hefted it on to a stack of boxes . |
| 7 | Furious with Gilbert 's panic , Rohmer pushed past him and yanked the door wide . |
| 8 | People had been wandering past us and paying the man in the booth in the white lodge and I 'd been envying them opening their purses and their wallets and shelling out all that money . |