Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took a bus to Regent Street and posted the letter at the Heddon Street post office . |
| 2 | Agnes now went into the back room and , after washing her hands in a bowl of water that stood on a bench , she dried them , then smoothed her hair back and adjusted the bow at the neck of her dress . |
| 3 | Eventually they died and sank down and joined the compost at the base of the leaves which , in fact , helped nourish the plant . |
| 4 | In an attempt to extinguish the flames , a number of youths broke into the Space Invaders machine , filled their pockets with an estimated £140 worth of ten pence pieces and hurtled the machine at the blaze . |
| 5 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 6 | She took a deep breath and rang the bell at the parson 's house . |
| 7 | He padded past the other cell doors and reached the door at the end of the corridor — massive , clenched together with square-headed nails . |
| 8 | For his part , the President stood with the rest of the politburo on the mausoleum of the man who made it all happen — Lenin — and took the salute at the military and civilian parade through Red Square . |
| 9 | In 1904 he began his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , but he returned to England a year later and completed the course at the London Polytechnic . |
| 10 | It replaced the Board of Education with a Ministry of Education , and gave the Minister at the head of this a creative rather than a merely controlling function , charging him or her with promoting education in England and Wales . |
| 11 | He fired the Lee Enfield again ; Rory was getting the hang of this now , and aimed the shotgun at the same place and fired it , almost before the noise of Fergus 's shot had stopped echoing . |
| 12 | In six appearances in carcass competitions at the Royal Smithfield Show he has taken three major championships and three reserves ; his lambs have triumphed at the Birmingham Primestock Show ‘ umpteen times ’ and topped the lot at the first national Welsh Primestock Show last year at Builth Wells . |
| 13 | She ordered a new tyre for her car from Jenny 's daddy , and left the car at the garage to be fitted , all ready loaded up with her luggage . |
| 14 | ULSTER 'S triathlon juniors proved too much for their senior counterparts and stole the show at the Orbit Triathlon in Ballymoney yesterday . |
| 15 | The dun 's handler plucked a tail feather and held the down at the quill-end against a neck wound to staunch the blood . |