Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1962 he returned to Rampur and successfully contested the state seat to become a member of the Uttar Pradesh assembly . |
| 2 | After a hair-raising experience on the Airport 's fast moving escalators , boarded the train for Coburg , and eventually reached the Medau Schule to be warmly greeted by Bedu . |
| 3 | Ford , according to Reeves , had built a career , become a congressional leader and eventually reached the White House not on the strength of any real ability , but because of his extraordinary skill at making himself acceptable to others . |
| 4 | They evolved further , and eventually perfected the DNA code that we know today . |
| 5 | After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop . |
| 6 | The full manufacturers ' list of 24 models which were considered not satisfactory ( and presumably failed the government test ) is : Boots 500 ; Brother MF1200PW and MF3200DB ; Electrolux NF4061 , NF4065 and NF4076 ; Goldstar ER350ME and ER535ME ; Hoover H6312 ; Matsui 260TC ; Moulinex 059 ; Philips AVM625 and AVM734 ; Proline M3030 ; Russel Hobbs 8504 ; Samsung RE570D , RE576D and RE990CT ; Sanyo EM2714BR ; Sharp R-7A50M and R-8H50(B)T ; Toshiba ER9610EW-1 and ER9630E ; Tricity MH1081 . |
| 7 | The children lay round the pool and slowly lost the prison pallor of Notting Hill Gate . |
| 8 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 9 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 10 | We had a good laugh together and so ended the Spithead Review . |
| 11 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 12 | Jake and his men gave a loud guffaw and so did the Town Clerk and the Dragoons . |
| 13 | Banks argued against the changes but acknowleged the need for change and so supported the Cheque Act . |
| 14 | Rogers was hard behind him but he undershot and came in shallowly , and only touched the Lewis lever for a second before veering away . |
| 15 | Surridge inherited and greatly expanded the family bat-making and sporting equipment firm . |
| 16 | A member of the Drayton class who was attending ante-natal classes demonstrated to other participants the best way of standing up after floorwork , and greatly impressed the class tutor . |
| 17 | The decrees , which later received parliamentary ratification , completely altered the social atmosphere in much of rural Spain and together represented the opening move in a challenge to the control of big landowners . |
| 18 | With that she reached out a tentative hand and gently stroked the silver hair . |
| 19 | He rose to his feet , padded silently back across the room and gently closed the bedroom door . |
| 20 | ( A coup in Venda on April 5 , to be covered in the April news digest , brought to power a military regime demanding reintegration into South Africa , and thus left the Bophuthatswana regime alone in seeking to sustain separate development . ) |
| 21 | In 1982 , again with the aid of the V & A 's Purchase Grant Fund , the University bought the correspondence and thus completed the Tree Collection . |
| 22 | Practise before your start to get the line correct , so that you approach close-hauled and just lay the starboard end . |
| 23 | Northampton began life as a fortified position in the early tenth century — it is first recorded as a name in the year 917 — and soon became the shire town . |
| 24 | But the company 's indebtedness continued to grow and soon exceeded the £135,000 figure . |
| 25 | They arrived in Maggon , and soon found the xarkon factory . |
| 26 | Harold Shoosmith discovered the fire and promptly summoned the fire brigade . |
| 27 | Mansell refused to be reconciled with Prost , with whom he fell out when the two were team-mates at Ferrari in 1991 , and promptly signed the US deal despite taking an estimated cut of half his salary . |
| 28 | He nurtures the ethnic vote and yesterday gave the lunch address at the local Greek Cypriot Club . |
| 29 | Gina usually wore old dresses and woollies when in bed with him and always locked the bathroom door tightly when she took a bath . |
| 30 | In winning the greyhound Grand National at Hall Green , Kildare Slippy jumped five flights of hurdles — and still broke the track record on the flat . |