Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually Hunton and Whitehall supplied the four wheel lorries but lots of farmers from up the highlands supplied carts . |
| 2 | Parker boasts the Queen among its ‘ owners ’ and that Reagan and Gorbachev signed the 1987 arms treaty with one of its pens . |
| 3 | While Stephen and David pitched the two tents side by side , Laura and I went to gather the firewood , provided by the shelter belt of trees . |
| 4 | Finally Slater divulged the flat 's telephone number , and Graham noted the seven numbers down carefully , double-checking them and ignoring Slater 's snide remarks about quirky Sara with her terrible taste in men , and the unfaithful , untrustworthy nature of women in general . |
| 5 | Monica and Tweed studied the three prints . |
| 6 | The amount proposed would be doubled if India and China signed the 1987 Montreal protocol ( see p. 35678 ) , with the US contribution fixed at 25 per cent . |
| 7 | Profit and Beghin reached the 8700 metre summit of the world 's second highest and , rated by many , hardest peak at 7pm on day three as night was falling , making route finding very tricky as they began the descent . |
| 8 | They and their publicity men realised acres of news space dedicated to the couple would promote not only the TV series but also their own newspapers , and photographers trailed the two stars everywhere during 1988 , at the height of the show 's popularity . |
| 9 | Nearly 800 schoolchildren from all over Fife and Tayside attended the 1991 schools ' Christmas lecture organised by the Tayside Section , which was given in St Andrews University chemistry department on 16 December and Dundee Institute of Technology on 17 December 1991 . |
| 10 | Carole laughed as she and Laura followed the two men back towards the house . |
| 11 | The head waiter opened the door and Comfort preceded the two men out , enjoying the way her long black skirt swung about her legs and showed off her slender ankles and new , high-heeled shoes . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , France 's Minister for Research and Technology urged the two US winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize to honour Dominique Stehelin , a Frenchman who took part in the award-winning cancer research at the University of California in the 1970s . |