Example sentences of "and beyond [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus could pangenesis unify all Darwin 's generation theorizing from gemmules to organisms and on to species , and beyond them the whole tree of life . |
| 2 | Just before La Barre , the road for Biarritz bends to the left and you can drive peaceably into that still glamorous resort , with the racecourse , the pine trees and beyond them the sands on one side , and more pine trees , the little Lac de Chiberta and the best known of Biarritz 's golf-courses on the other — the Basque Coast is very good for golf , with four courses all quite close to one another ; this is the English influence once again , creating links out of some auspicious dunes . |
| 3 | For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon , and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late , that she was a frontier province of the Greek world ; beyond lay Illyrians , Dardanians and Thracians , and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe , undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower . |
| 4 | As he gazed out over the still wet cobblestones , all he could see was the glimmer of lights — lights on the barrack square , lights on the sentry posts at the main gates , lights in the barrack huts , and beyond them the lights of the hospital 's east wing . |
| 5 | I saw two small spires through the spy-hole , and beyond them the intense red haze of the kiln chamber . |
| 6 | She was conscious of the silent castle rooms enclosing them , and beyond them the outer walls , and beyond those the barren miles of frozen snow . |
| 7 | The road led between lemon groves , and beyond them the sea sparkled in the distance . |
| 8 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 9 | The more restricted arena of the Chamber itself was divided into the Presence Chamber , where anyone with access to court might go , and beyond it the Privy Chamber and the most private apartments , to which entree was restricted . |
| 10 | They rested on elbows , or lay stretched like Stars , stomachs in sand , smooth heads together , a brown hand lifting a white cigarette to a rose-painted mouth , and a line of malachite green smoke going up into the air , which was not here the intense cobalt of the plain of Orange , but pearl-cream-gold , a heavy air , soft and undulating like the pale sand and beyond it the warm , hazed , sand-green sea . |
| 11 | He stood at the lit window of his hotel room and saw his own reflection , and beyond it the room , and in that ghost-world the image of Tom Carey walking to and fro , a glassy shadow . |
| 12 | From Schupfheim a spectacular minor road runs south for 17km ( 10½ miles ) following the Forest Emme ( Waldemme ) as this stretch of Little Emme is commonly called , through the hills along the Mariental valley to Fluhli and the little climatic resort of Sorenberg ( 1,159m , 3,802ft ) , near which is a cable railway to the summit of the Brienzer Rothorn which gives an unrivalled prospect of Lake Brienz and beyond it the whole massif of the Bernese Oberland peaks . |
| 13 | She stood looking towards the balcony and beyond it the sea . |
| 14 | A kissing-gate led to the moor and beyond it the path climbed steeply . |
| 15 | Not far away was the great sweep of the Radnor Forest , and beyond it the Elan valley where peregrines nested , the Towy valley with the last kites in Britain , and Tregaron Bog where wild geese came in winter . |
| 16 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 17 | and beyond it the sky , |