Example sentences of "past [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 2 | Although Thatcherism denounced past policies , it affected to return to past philosophy . |
| 3 | On Wednesday , his four-goal blast against Apollon Limassol took him past Roger Hunt 's club record of 17 European goals . |
| 4 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 5 | Then he moved , brushing past Ward , and at that moment Iris Sunderby reached out , seizing me by the shoulder and letting out a scream as she fell to the ground , pulling me down on top of her . |
| 6 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 7 | They moved past Kaas and grabbed Adam , wrenching him away from Billie . |
| 8 | Burun looked past Zurachina , out into the courtyard . |
| 9 | We followed a winding path past hawthorn , dogwood , spindle , guelder-rose , willow , wayfaring tree and dense thickets of blackthorn . |
| 10 | The man pedalled wearily past Doyle 's station , breathing heavily . |
| 11 | Then , strolling past Mariánské Láznë 's colonnade , she walked on and into an area of well-kept parkland and , taking her ease on one of the white-painted benches scattered around , found the card and began to write . |
| 12 | A minute later Paul Dunnion steered the ball through a crowded midfield for Patton to gallop clear and guide the ball past Davy O'Hare . |
| 13 | He hauled the harmonium into the room past Mum , pausing only to wink at me . |
| 14 | The predatory Ritchie chested the ball down and hammered a volley past Lukic . |
| 15 | Ritchie passed to Irwin and then ran on to head the cross past Lukic . |
| 16 | Holden battered the free-kick against the wall and after a scramble the ball fell to Henry , who struck a low shot from more than 30 yards past Lukic . |
| 17 | At the kick off , Arse canter upfield , Merson or someone puts in a cross from the right which Arse players in the box ignore but which Jon Newsome guides home past Lukic . |
| 18 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 19 | He paused , looked up the street past Armstrong and went into a crouch . |
| 20 | It shows the city from Bonsecours churchyard : the bridges , the spires , the river bending away past Croisset . |
| 21 | And that is how we set off , arm-in-arm , down Sunningdale Drive past Sussex Gardens where the bowls players were dying slowly in well-pressed whites , towards the London Road . |
| 22 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 23 | The girls chattered briefly in Thai and the scent of coconut oil blurred past Jezrael as the younger ran down to catch the sea in her bucket . |
| 24 | " Getting old , she grumbled , moving past Patrick to stand before Jane . |
| 25 | Past Ruthyn and Clocaenog and into the Cambrian mountains and the Berwyns , hampered by vile weather , and impeded by swollen streams and misty hills , he moved methodically on the lines laid down for him , and made no contact with any substantial enemy . |
| 26 | This time he did n't miss , he shot past Stowell and United were on level terms , amazingly , they almost snatched the lead a minute later when a brilliant save by Stowell denied Simpson once again . |
| 27 | ‘ As long as I do n't have to go past Godfrey . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He went past Regazzoni and Jones in his Surtees almost without knowing it . |
| 30 | Careca rose to head the ball firmly down past Van Breukelen . |