Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of his death Kaysone was state President and president of the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) , and thereby held the two most powerful posts in Laos . |
| 2 | The suit , the subject of a lengthy and embarrassingly explicit story in the San Jose Mercury News last week , charges that Michels repeatedly groped , propositioned and forcibly kissed the three women , all mature adults , at work . |
| 3 | Bishop Tubbs did not have this copy in his hand and so asked the 1662 question , and Madge was asked if she would obey . |
| 4 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 5 | In spring 1987 he suffered a further blow when the constituent members of the PLO — split since 1983 — were reconciled at the 18th PNC in Algiers , and formally renounced the 1985 accord with Jordan . |
| 6 | The NPC received the government work report and the budget report , and also approved the Three Gorges dam project , as well as legislation on trade unions and on women 's rights and interests . |
| 7 | But Daum coolly , cynically and calculatingly named the four foreigners in his squad from the start . |
| 8 | We had a critical look at the one Lancaster and the one Mosquito , had a good laugh at the set piece showing the inside of a Waaf Nissen hut ( so tidy and so spacious ! ) , and then studied the dozens of squadron crests and emblems laid out in a large glass cabinet . |
| 9 | And then came the Sixties , stamping a new and distinctive bootprint on the fashion scene . |
| 10 | He showed me the location of Bentwaters in the old AA Book of the Road I always carried and then bought the two ounces of Red from me at four times what I 'd agreed to pay for it . |
| 11 | He missed the 1972 defeat by Neath with a broken ankle , returned for the '73 win over Cardiff and then missed the '74 defeat of Aberavon after needing 20 stitches in a head wound suffered in a charity match a week before the final . |
| 12 | Early on 22 September he captured a Scarborough collier and another vessel and , later that morning , with typical effrontery , signalled for a pilot off Spurn Head , at the mouth of the Humber , and then captured the two boats sent out in response . |
| 13 | Rather , the city became preoccupied by its budgetary dispute with Mrs Thatcher 's government and virtually ignored the MDC . |
| 14 | Kelly ( 4.4 ) looked at it and silently counted the three red beads , took three out of the box and threaded them ; the same with the green beads . |
| 15 | The company has a long association with Ford , and recently introduced the 1400 cc Rover powered K-Series of cars . |