Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Luck descended on her golden kangaroo , waved her eighteen carat boomerang and whispered the magic words . |
| 2 | He won his début race for Ferrari , in Brazil , and outfought the mercurial Ayrton Senna in Hungary . |
| 3 | People passing the farmhouse saw the smoke rising from the chimney , and envied the newly-married couple in their happiness . |
| 4 | To explore the desert , Thesiger immersed himself in the Bedu way of life : he spoke Arabic , dressed and went barefoot they did , and shared the extreme hardship of their existence . |
| 5 | By Jaysus , they run to the top and stabbed the old fella to death . |
| 6 | As he stooped to kiss Murad 's feet he drew a poisoned dagger and stabbed the Turkish leader , causing ‘ the illustrious sultan to drink the sherbet of martyrdom ’ . |
| 7 | It has also partly reduced the bureaucratization of farms and lessened the social distance between farmers and their workers . |
| 8 | In a fit of temper he shot up past the runner , and just as he was reaching for a ledge above , the turf he was standing on performed its Velcro imitation and propelled the stunned climber into the air . |
| 9 | ‘ Be brave , ’ he told himself , and laid the middle finger of each hand upon the rim , as Peccable , who 'd once owned such a Bowl and had it smashed by his wife in a domestic row , had instructed . |
| 10 | Half carrying , half trailing the inert figure , they reached the factory door , then edged their way in and laid the unconscious form on the floor . |
| 11 | He cleared his throat again and laid the little bat carefully on the table . |
| 12 | She pulled her jumper off and handed it to him , then watched as he spread it out and laid the dead animal on it . |
| 13 | Curtis settled himself behind the wheel and laid the empty can on the passenger seat . |
| 14 | He went and laid the limp creature down on a tuft of grass near the fold to let its mother lick it . |
| 15 | The collapse of the MacDonald government in August 1931 weakened and divided the Labour Party as effectively as the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions . |
| 16 | Then he just brushed the very tips of his fingers against hers and plunged the offending hand deep in his pocket as if his fist were on fire and the pocket was a bucket full of sand . |
| 17 | He was elected to parliament as MP for Orkney and Shetland in 1950 , and led the Liberal Party from 1956 till 1967 . |
| 18 | Foreign Minister Jabir , first appointed on Oct. 3 , was a United States-educated professor of political science , who had been advising King Hussein on the peace process and led the Jordanian delegation to the Madrid conference [ see p. 38594 ] . |
| 19 | The Belfast helped sink the German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943 and led the naval bombardment in support of the Normandy D Day landing at Juno Beach . |
| 20 | In 1948 Pillai became India 's Commissioner-General for Economic and Trade Affairs , with the rank of Ambassador , and led the Indian delegation to the GATT talks . |
| 21 | On their return they received names in recognition of their war service , ‘ Maude ’ being named after Lt Gen Sir Stanley Maude , who revived the faltering campaign against the Turks in Mesopotamia and led the British forces into Baghdad in March , 1917 . |
| 22 | Heynckes had joined Bayern in 1987 after seven years as manager of Borussia , and led the Bavarian club to two Bundesliga titles . |
| 23 | Santerre sounded the horn and led the excited hunters down the hill . |
| 24 | The Britons ' newspaper regaled its limited readership with many of the anti-semitic slanders of White Russian propaganda from the Civil War , including tales of how Jewish Bolsheviks boiled deacons in water and drunk the resultant soup . |
| 25 | I stopped , glared up at the wheeling gulls and a couple of thrushes , then got some grass and wiped the yellow-white mess off the front guard . |
| 26 | Frowning , for he was fastidious in all his personal habits , he picked it up between thumb and index finger , deposited it on his plate and wiped the soiled fingers on his napkin . |
| 27 | I shook my head at him , scowling , and wiped the brown rim of soup from the inside of my plate . |
| 28 | It asserted the need for social reform within a broad imperial policy and attacked the official leaders of the Labour movement for their failure to dissociate themselves from pacifists and militants . |
| 29 | Conservator Nathan Stolow , who contributed a chapter to the National Gallery 's own guide to art transport , has called for public accounting of the way in which the paintings were prepared and restored for travel and attacked the National Gallery for creating an exhibition advisory committee composed of officials from the tour 's participating institutions . |
| 30 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |