Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He placed the beings , pictured as animals , in a belt embracing the known universe , and divided it into the twelve equal houses of the zodiac ( Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Sagittarius , Scorpio , Capricorn , Aquarius and Pisces ) . |
| 2 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 3 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 4 | Roland drew his breath in minor shock : Maud said , ‘ Oh , the dolls ’ — and Sir George brought his light back from a blank mirror entwined with gilded roses and focused it on the three rigid figures , semi-recumbent under a dusty counterpane , in a substantial if miniature four-poster bed . |
| 5 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
| 6 | She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar . |
| 7 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |