Example sentences of "[vb past] past [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gleam of insulating oil shone bright on the prominences of his face , dimming and brightening again as she moved past him to hunker down at his side . |
| 2 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
| 3 | And neither of the other ships changed position as we fled past them towards deep space . |
| 4 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 5 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 6 | Talk of the Rector and his unruly family , of her wild Harry 's doings at Oxford , of the poor hunting season it had been , all flowed between her and Aunt Emily and when she rose to go , and Alexandra held out her hand in farewell , Mrs Burrows stalked past her to the door as if she had no more real existence than an armchair . |
| 7 | With as much dignity as she could muster , she stalked past him into the bathroom . |
| 8 | Then she gazed past him at Alexei . |
| 9 | She tiptoed past them to the chest of drawers , took out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and slipped back downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 10 | Then she jumped up from the bed before he could grab her again and darted past him to the window . |
| 11 | They came past him at a run , three of them , two heading straight for the room that Pope had indicated on the floor plan . |
| 12 | ‘ So since he asked for you again , ’ Charlie went on as she climbed past him into the back of the cab , ‘ make sure that whatever you did for him , you just keep on doing it . ’ |
| 13 | Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed . |
| 14 | Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road . |
| 15 | A man wearing an anorak was walking his dog , and the terrier trundled past me on its lead as I rubbed my hands together , trying to keep warm . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you married ? ’ he said at once , head turned toward the din from his workmen as he stepped past me over the rubble and put a key into the lock of the , I should have thought , not yet apt to be plundered building . |
| 17 | He stepped past her into the room , then turned to face her , his face set in uncompromising lines . |
| 18 | People drifted in and out , not acknowledging one 's presence , and my only meeting with Joan 's mother was when she rushed past me with a vague smile and a tennis racquet . |
| 19 | As the woman 's mouth sagged open Polly walked past her to the door . |
| 20 | Boyd was calling up the stairs for Hank to come down , and she watched silently , as if at the movies , while he emerged from his ground-floor bedroom , walked past her without looking at her , and held out his hand to the reporter , who winced as he felt its grip . |
| 21 | Daniel told Cardiff Crown Court his father walked past him on the stairs after getting a knife from the kitchen . |
| 22 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 23 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 24 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 25 | She walked past him into the room , which was very similar to her own in style , but which bore the unmistakably masculine stamp of its occupant . |
| 26 | She walked past him into the big sitting-room and he followed her , lounging insolently against the door-frame as once more his eyes seemed to strip her . |
| 27 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
| 28 | But , having been blessed with long , slender legs and what Paul described as a model-girl 's figure , she was used to being stared at , so she walked past them with her normal slightly coltish grace , her composure intact . |
| 29 | Although Gemmill 's goal was voted the best in the tournament , the sight of a mesmerised Alan Rough watching in disbelief as a Peruvian free kick flew past him into the net will remain one of Argentina 's most bleak moments . |
| 30 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |