Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gone in search of gold and glory and they thought the better of him for it ; even the composer of the ‘ New World Symphony ’ was careful to sound the horns of triumph . |
| 2 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 3 | Boudiaf was one of the " nine fathers of the revolution " who had organized armed resistance to French rule in the late 1940s , and he enjoyed the further prestige of having spent five years in prison ( 1956-61 ) alongside Ahmed Ben Bella ( later President ) and Ait Ahmed . |
| 4 | For this he was profoundly grateful and it stopped the worse of the panics . |
| 5 | Miranda had a skewed air , her dark curls sprang up on her head so that the younger girl noticed little black hairs running down the vertebrae of her neck to the nape ; there was a feral shine and speed to her too , something uncontained , and it scared the younger girl . |