Example sentences of "[vb base] and [vb past] the " in BNC.

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1 She made her voice fade and left the receiver knocking against a table leg .
2 He saw Louis ' eyes flatten and felt the twitch of a nerve in Gomez 's hands .
3 After lunch I reread and filed the summary .
4 The stay-maker proper who cut and shaped the whalebone and canvas was a man , who needed other qualities as well as skill : " He ought to be a very polite tradesman , as he approaches the ladies so nearly . "
5 They cut and stripped the turf away in small neat squares and then after measuring the ground they slowly and laboriously began to dig .
6 He easily rounded Eagles cover and cantered the fifty metres to score his first try in a month .
7 The Labour Party immediately criticised the proposals as an attack on councils they run and said the plans would lead to more centralisation and privatisation .
8 Of the fact that they attracted amused glances and speculative nudges , they were totally unaware as they read and interpreted the message in each other 's eyes .
9 Later John Smith made Messrs Lamont and Major visibly squirm and reduced the Tory back-benchers to silence when he read out quote after quote from the Conservatives pledging not to extend VAT .
10 I say the erm missile go up , snake up , and then explode and hit the other missile , and I kind of had a good idea right away that , you know , it was a patriot launch , because it was erm very impressive , and erm my confidence in the patriot is extremely high .
11 After the court hearing a BBC television unit in the southwest filmed on board Alert and reconstructed the smuggling exploit on the theme of the West country as a traditional smuggling coastline .
12 The song had an anthemic ‘ Smiths are back ’ feel and contained the finest uptempo guitar work Marr had produced thus far .
13 He saw the hearse arrive and watched the two coffins being carried into the church .
14 Yeah , and try and ground the mallet a little bit , cos then the black ball will go quite nicely down there .
15 And , he said yes I do and waved the leaflet at me , he says I know all about that but but you 've got to now otherwise you you
16 If they went again to that place and what they 've and got the same things ?
17 And why had n't the attendant come and told the foreign autocrat off for coming in the wrong way ?
18 DAVID FRENCH is the man who took over the Marriage Guidance Council , renamed it Relate and persuaded the Princess of Wales to become its patron , thus demonstrating that he was both tough and persuasive .
19 Using this concept , Rouse considered a molecule in dilute solution under sinusoidal shear and derived the relations where η and η s are the viscosities of the solution and the solvent respectively , n is the number of molecules per unit volume , k is the Boltzmann constant , and ο is the angular frequency of the applied stress which is zero for steady flow .
20 Some of them and they made them Leslie and Eric and James , Jimmy and Andrew and Jim and Georgie and Jim and them , they worked in the Wintertime you see and made the barrels .
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