Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revolving light carousels played on the compartment side of a Mk. 1 coach while wind and rain machines battered the corridor side from which David Boyce had to fall and , later Alfred Molina had to dive , to their ‘ deaths ’ . |
| 2 | Pollution and weathering battered the surface of the glass . |
| 3 | Holden battered the free-kick against the wall and after a scramble the ball fell to Henry , who struck a low shot from more than 30 yards past Lukic . |
| 4 | By day and night spell blasts and siege engine shots battered the walls . |
| 5 | She cast a malevolent eye at the window as a squall of rain battered the glass , then began an inspection of supplies . |
| 6 | We turned back to retrace our steps as a clap of thunder echoed through the valley and the wild wind battered the trees . |
| 7 | Spence shot 69 in the near-gale that battered the morning starters to stand on 136 , eight under par . |
| 8 | Orc war machines battered the city 's gates and broke its walls , and soon the Waaagh was inside the city itself , burning and destroying while the helpless citizens fled to the hills . |
| 9 | I watched as the rain battered the grass and the wind pummelled it , quick gusts flattening patches of the field like sudden bruises beneath the dull sky . |
| 10 | The shadow Health Secretary , David Blunkett , called it ‘ a damp squib with a long fuse attached to a powder keg ’ , and the Trades Union Congress firecast the plans would cost thousands of jobs . |
| 11 | As they began to climb , Jinny looked back towards the sofa and met the boy 's eyes again . |
| 12 | ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham . |
| 13 | When my right hon. Friend last met the CBI , did he have an opportunity to discuss its recent report on manufacturing industry in which it said that the Government should have no role in backing winners , which is precisely the Opposition 's policy ? |
| 14 | Today I met the faith healer Ronnie Hazlehurst recommended . |
| 15 | I was in the Bohemian quarter , where cobbled alleys full of bars and bookshops met the quayside . |
| 16 | The Khan 's gaze started at his feet and travelled slowly up his body so that by the time their eyes met the Khan was leaning back and holding on to his knees to stop himself falling over . |
| 17 | Nicholas stood , watching the place where the walls met the sky , and the towers , and the galleries , and unslung his bow and bent it . |
| 18 | Before her a green sea rippled , melting into azure where it met the sky . |
| 19 | HRH The Duke of Kent , President of the Institution , met the crews and families of the two RNLI stations in Jersey ( St Helier and St Catherine ) during a visit to the island on 16 May . |
| 20 | We met the sea again at Gurnard 's Head . |
| 21 | A storm forced her boat into Dublin , where she met the deputy , Henry Cromwell [ q.v. ] , and cautioned him about his treatment of Quakers . |
| 22 | Biggart says : ‘ The Northwest promotion , which offered two for the price of one tickets to 74 international destinations , met the prerequisite for a successful sales promotion . |
| 23 | On the first visit the social worker met the son-in-law as she arrived , rushing out of the flat , with the door slammed . |
| 24 | The social worker did not get very far , but having decided to leave , met the son-in-law returning , outside the flat . |
| 25 | Representatives of colleges met the NDO and SCOTVEC staff and had the opportunity to raise issues with the unit writers . |
| 26 | I wonder if that 's where he met the gypsies . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) said that he met the consortium today . |
| 28 | Harpers & Queen met the maestro in his own home , a chic but highly individual apartment in the smart seizième district of Paris . |
| 29 | In December 1895 , they met the Company at Euston with a list of objections and suggestions in lieu of the Company 's offer . |
| 30 | Grand Metropolitan , which wants tenants to sign binding 20-year leases , agreed to send a representative from London to the town after Mr Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington , and two licensees met the company chairman . |