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 . |