Example sentences of "get past " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 39 British players started the week this year , and not a single one got past the 3rd round . |
| 2 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 3 | Only three batsmen got past twenty and none got to thirty , and a total of 137 was clearly a waste of everyone 's time . |
| 4 | In 1982 , QPR got past West Bromwich Albion but Leicester were knocked out by Tottenham . |
| 5 | This time I at least got past the lochan and up on to the boulder field that leads to the window . |
| 6 | Bitter salt water got past the mouthpiece , choking her , eyes streaming with the effort of coughing . |
| 7 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 8 | Then Tambay , perhaps unaccustomed to such pressure , made a tiny mistake , slipping a little wide , and Niki got past him . |
| 9 | On lap forty-five , he finally got past Lauda ( who was having trouble with his gear linkage ) going up Druids and the crowd went wild . |
| 10 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 11 | Real shame our movie never got past first base . |
| 12 | They got past my crater and to the trenches we had attacked from , but they were driven back again almost at once . |
| 13 | The Lisburn teacher coaches Churches League third division side Village Star , a team who have never won a trophy and , until this year , never got past the second round of junior soccer 's top competition . |
| 14 | I got past the consultant and sent back to my GP and she immediately said , ‘ You 've been very naughty , you 've got to have your breast removed , never mind what you found here and there , I am going to send you back to someone in London who 'll take it off ’ . |
| 15 | Nothing got past Sister Hennessy that was n't correct — including That Man ! |
| 16 | I used to take Meals on Wheels to him when he got past caring for himself . ’ |
| 17 | I already got past the . |
| 18 | and I said to both of them , I just do n't know how he got past that second car in the road right , come out of his drive , I could n't believe that he could of done it , but he did , because he went you know |
| 19 | The attacker got past nurses and private security guards unnoticed at St Helier hospital in South London . |
| 20 | United 's best chance of the half came just a minute later ; Martin Foyle ran on to the perfect Paul Simpson through ball , he actually got past goal keeper Andy Gosney but he was forced just a little bit wide . |
| 21 | He got Svidrigailov 's nightmare past the censor , and there is a good deal more to that horror than I have quoted ; and ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ could have been got past him too . |
| 22 | Harold Wilson always used to say he 'd never got past page one , did n't he ? |
| 23 | Schumacher , setting the fastest lap of the race in the process , finally got past Blundell just before half-distance . |
| 24 | Crosby 's acceleration and close control were a frequent worry to Everton on the right but seven minutes before half-time the winger only seemed to have got past Snodin by fouling him . |
| 25 | The thief , having got past ninety per cent of the gates and gadgets blocking his way , would break into one of the flats in the building . |
| 26 | He bent his head forward and whispered now , ‘ She has n't got past the ‘ bloody old cow stage ’ completely . |
| 27 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 28 | She , she 's about three right , fine , okay , she 's got past toddler stage , if , you see , if , if she was three and her feet were in splint , did she wal she did n't wait there did she ? |
| 29 | I have got past that stage many , many years ago , and I believe that a foreigner has equally as much right to live in the world as a Britisher . |
| 30 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |