Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Widmer said the company could not afford these unpaid debts and claimed the 1,300 Caldaire employees were under threat because of the debt .
2 She 'd invented some errands and left the two men alone .
3 The Enterprise Centre 's ‘ local ’ LEC — LEEL has been supportive of a number of areas of the centre 's activities and sponsored the 1993 Napier Enterprise Lecture .
4 Here we were , on schedule , and with considerable pride we unpacked our bikes and cycled the hundred yards from our parking space to the Llegadas Nacionales door .
5 Warders in riot gear stormed the room after four hours and marched the 12 protesters to a segregation block .
6 Blyth interviewed all the likely applicants and selected the 120 crew , placing 172 people on the waiting list .
7 Fagin inspected the handkerchieves and told the two boys that they were extremely well made and that he was very pleased with their work .
8 Police know that on Saturday — two days before the murders — Julie cashed £340 in travellers cheques and carried the 1,500 South African rand in her wallet .
9 Kevin Garvey ( Warley Encon ) drew on one of the two warm water outfalls and won the 27 peg Square Open on the Lifford Canal with 6–4–12 .
10 The session also established the Supreme Court and the Office of Public Prosecutor , dismissed the people 's auditing bodies and revoked the 1957 law on taxation of single and childless people .
11 Then , when she had joined him , he had shone his torch on the locks and inserted the three keys , first the Yale , and then the Ingersoll , and lastly the security lock which disconnected the electronic warning system from Guy 's Marsh police station .
12 The final document stressed the relationship between political pluralism and market economies and committed the 35 member nations to " endeavour to achieve " ( i ) free and competitive market economies with prices based on supply and demand ; ( ii ) fiscal and monetary policies which promoted economic growth and enhanced the ability of markets to function efficiently ; ( iii ) policies aimed at expanding the free flow of trade , capital and investment ; and ( iv ) the repatriation of profits in convertible currencies .
13 She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought .
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