Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked into the lobby without a word , entered the kitchen and gazed at the four prisoners . |
| 2 | A list of deadlines and responsibilities was drawn up and agreed between the two departments and this has led to a better understanding of each others tasks and the benefits of compliance . |
| 3 | That time lag is a feature that bedevils the software industry and led to the absurdity that the first generation 32-bit chip , the 80386 , had been superseded and obsoleted by the 80486 before there was a 32-bit desktop operating system available for the processor . |
| 4 | In September 1962 Sylvia Plath separated from her husband and moved with the two small children to a flat in London . |
| 5 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |
| 6 | The US engine was initially designated as GE 's model l–A ( later improved and redesignated as the 1–14 for use in the three XP aircraft ) and with continued improvements , evolved into the l–16/J–31 series turbojets . |
| 7 | The crowd , jubilant at President Fidel Ramos ' decision to allow the body 's return , pushed and shouted as the 727 jet , which bore an image of Marcos and the words ‘ I am a Filipino , ’ taxied to the terminal . |
| 8 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 9 | These trends continued and accelerated in the 1970s , and are discussed more fully in the summary at the end of this section , but in advance of the more definitive work allowed by the 1981 Census , a number of local studies began to identify a group of common themes . |
| 10 | Consequently , federalists were shocked and disheartened by the 1945 British general election , which removed Churchill and his Conservatives from power . |
| 11 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 12 | The cost of these activities was met by EEC taxpayers , and came from the 10,850,000 ECUs sanctioned by M. Jacques Delors as that year 's budget for ‘ the promotion of Europe 's cultural identity ’ ( see Adam Breeze , Culture Vultures , IFF , 1992 ) . |
| 13 | Bodie got out of the car and strolled past the two men , standing quite close to them and browsing in the window of the shop before which they stood . |
| 14 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 15 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 16 | Rufus reached for the blue phone directory and turned to the V's , to Verne-Smith-Duchini , and had actually begun to dial when his patient was announced . |
| 17 | Then in the account of how the risen Lord Jesus Himself drew near and walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 verses 13/31 ) we read of how He explained from the scriptures that all the events surrounding His crucifixion had been foreshadowed and foretold in the Word of God . |
| 18 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |
| 19 | Pam sat up , her face flushed with happiness and an almost girlish embarrassment , and grinned at the two men who had just entered . |
| 20 | Though controlled in part by international agreement , the industry overfished its stocks and declined during the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 21 | The court found that detectives had rewritten interview notes and lied during the 1986 trial . |
| 22 | Where is the man who thrived and survived in the 1980s heading in the 1990s ? |
| 23 | This was once an important industry there and survived until the 1870s . |
| 24 | She opened her hand and looked at the two silver coins . |
| 25 | The Indian stood in the doorway , a duffle bag looped over one shoulder , and looked at the two phones on the desk . |
| 26 | She shook her head to dispel the shadows and looked at the four children sitting listlessly on the couch . |
| 27 | But for the present I ca n't — ’ He broke off , and looked at the three dates again . |
| 28 | Massingham walked over to Berowne 's jacket hanging on a hook at the back of the door and felt in the two outer and one inner pockets . |
| 29 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 30 | The girls looked a little less sulky and stared at the two townees . |