Example sentences of "and [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York : THE United States ' worst winter storm of the century killed at least 66 people and paralysed the east coast of the country , closing motorways and airports and leaving millions without electricity , officials said last night . |
| 2 | Lady Luck descended on her golden kangaroo , waved her eighteen carat boomerang and whispered the magic words . |
| 3 | He won his début race for Ferrari , in Brazil , and outfought the mercurial Ayrton Senna in Hungary . |
| 4 | These cars once graced the highways of mid-America and cruised the strips of countless towns and cities across the United States . |
| 5 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 6 | People passing the farmhouse saw the smoke rising from the chimney , and envied the newly-married couple in their happiness . |
| 7 | Aluminium poisoning became famous in Britain when on Wednesday 6 July 1988 a 20-tonne lorry-load of aluminium sulphate was poured into the wrong tank at Lowermoor treatment works and polluted the water supply of Camelford in Cornwall . |
| 8 | Groups from Long Sela'an are still blockading Samling 's logging roads , declaring that the company has scared away the game and polluted the rivers . |
| 9 | Two years later he joined Simon of Montfort when the latter returned to England and reimposed the Provisions . |
| 10 | From January to July my contacts with the family were infrequent and concerned the progress of the two older boys . |
| 11 | The origins of this legislation were particularly protracted , and concerned the question of rural amenities ; ‘ town and country ’ now became the customary title for Planning Acts . |
| 12 | Francis & Francis and concerned the police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 13 | The tenant argues … that , inasmuch as the tenant 's obligation to pay over the deposit on the execution of the lease was an obligation to secure the performance of covenants which touched and concerned the land , it was an obligation inextricably associated with covenants whose benefit and burden would pass with the reversion in the lease respectively . |
| 14 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 15 | I ca n't imagine how we would have reacted if our teacher had identified herself as a practising heterosexual and shared the secrets of her lifestyle . |
| 16 | To explore the desert , Thesiger immersed himself in the Bedu way of life : he spoke Arabic , dressed and went barefoot they did , and shared the extreme hardship of their existence . |
| 17 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 18 | The Girls were most impressed when Mary bought a Daimler and employed a chauffeur so they in turn bought a car between them and shared the running costs . |
| 19 | He not only comes from Brixton but , for many years , inhabited the landscapes and shared the hopes and anxieties of the indigent respectables living in a largely Labourist collective ethos . |
| 20 | ‘ Yet we still sat next to each other on the team bus and shared the same room . |
| 21 | Not that the inequity of the tip mattered , for we always pooled and shared the money evenly . |
| 22 | I have been helped by mentors , women and men , at various stages in my career and I have a very strong network of people who have given me advice and support when I 've needed it and shared the ups and downs . |
| 23 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
| 24 | A specially trained team tortured a single victim ; each member of the team reinforced the others and shared the responsibility . |
| 25 | Britain was a member of SEATO , the US alliance organisation in the region , and shared the US interest in containing the Asian spread of communism . |
| 26 | The intention and the vow itself were no cynical charade , for Edward had already been on crusade and shared the piety and the military enthusiasm which impelled so many to the Holy Land . |
| 27 | Every member was both producer and owner , all provided labour power and shared the products of their labour . |
| 28 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 29 | ‘ It was all about cooperation ; people worked together and got results and shared the spoils . ’ |
| 30 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |