Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 3 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Santerre sounded the horn and led the excited hunters down the hill . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He came down looking rather puzzled , and asked the two ladies to see the boy with him . |
| 9 | He had an assertive , competitive manner and asked the right questions . |
| 10 | By the time you have dictated the brief and asked the relevant questions you will have started to form some idea of the answers . |
| 11 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 12 | He returned to Downing Street and asked the waiting journalists for their prayers rather than their congratulations . |
| 13 | In such a society , as in southern Italy , the stronger spirits took to brigandage or smuggling and became the epic heroes of a depressed race . |
| 14 | As the years passed , the exotic Eastern cats gradually ousted the less exciting British cats and became the hot favourites , much to the distress of the British organizers . |
| 15 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 16 | A bitter and complex dispute was decided by the crown jurists in the interests of the foreros ( 1763 ) , and when the entailed lands of the nobility and the church estates were put on the market by the liberal legislation of the nineteenth century they purchased their foros and became the outright owners of land they had rented ; they became foristas . |
| 17 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 18 | He took out the letter and scanned the final lines again . |
| 19 | John must have been so angry , I know that now , he 's still angry , John did n't shout at Dad or anything , or throw a tantrum , he just stood there and looked at Dad and realized the other boys would call him a liar and what could he do ? ’ |
| 20 | To produce the 47 works in ‘ New Democratic Pictures ’ , for instance , they sorted through 70,000 photos , enlarged , printed and coloured the selected images , organised their framing , paid for the publication of a catalogue , constructed a scale model of the exhibition and oversaw the hanging of the pictures in the gallery . |
| 21 | Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes . |
| 22 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 23 | They both looked round , and met the startled eyes of Mrs Pigdon , the landlady . |
| 24 | And we 've increased the old British League by four , and equalled the two Leagues out , so we should see erm quite some interesting speedway this year . |
| 25 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 26 | And as if to brook no further argument , Madame Gautier took a large paper bag and emptied the entire contents of the cookie jar into it . |
| 27 | He slipped out of the pony harness , withdrew the slim plastic tube and emptied the sticky gerbils back into their cage . |
| 28 | On Sunday , July 12 , 1987 , the gang went to the Deposit Centre in Brompton Road , central London , and emptied the 121 boxes which contained jewellery , gold , cash and cocaine . |
| 29 | Time quickly passed as we savoured the views , enjoyed the sunshine and braved the sporadic showers . |
| 30 | When she laughed , the laugh came out of her mouth like mirror bubbles of liquid oxygen and spattered the iridescent walls , the scintillating ceiling , the miraculous man , his wonderful glossy chestnut eyes . |