Example sentences of "past [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw a woman run out past me down the street with her clothes and hair on fire . |
| 4 | He tried to walk past me down the stairs , but I stopped him . |
| 5 | Kids were pushing past me down the corridor , all shouting and yelling to each other , and Kevin was carried along with them . |
| 6 | I thought she would grow really angry but instead she just pushed past me at the door . |
| 7 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 8 | If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ . |
| 9 | The cat rushed past me into the hallway . |
| 10 | ‘ Is Mrs Vulcan in ? ’ they chorused , peering past me into the room . |
| 11 | A small form whipped past me into the alley and tried to squeeze between my back and the wall I was leaning against . |
| 12 | And while I 'm doing that , the two bucks are pushing past me into the room and they 've got his shirt open and they 're really doing a number on him . |
| 13 | ‘ He followed me home , and he pushed past me into the house . |
| 14 | He then marches straight past me into the middle of the room where he strides around in imperious circles . |
| 15 | Again Carol acted as if I was n't there , swaying past me into the middle of the camp where she put her hands on her hips and yelled : ‘ Melissa ! |
| 16 | She walks past me into the living room , and I follow like her student nurse . |
| 17 | saw her go past me up the street . |
| 18 | Even that I believed , but the lipstick on his underpants ‘ administered by a gay dwarf in drag , brushing past me in the men 's showers ’ was a bit much . |
| 19 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 20 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 21 | I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall . |
| 22 | The spy turned his face to the road and watched a red bus clatter past them down the hill , one solitary passenger sitting in the brightly lit interior . |
| 23 | Suddenly the dwarf was tearing himself wildly out of the trooper 's hands , his arms still pinioned , sliding past them towards the darkness behind . |
| 24 | The two of them had slowed almost to a stop , and the other delegates were streaming past them towards the relaxation of the Seraglio . |
| 25 | Both players were standing outside the players ' lounge when three men ran past them into the building , for which they are believed to have produced entrance tickets , pursued by around 20 Rangers fans . |
| 26 | A woman edged past them into the alcove , murmuring apologies . |
| 27 | How reach through and past them to the axis of power ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Before Rachel could reply , Ace walked quickly past them to the communications terminal . |
| 30 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |