Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He heard the dialling tone and stabbed the 9 button three times . |
| 2 | On Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia , Mehmed II built another medrese beside the Uc Serefeli medrese and divided the 100 akce salary Ali Tusi had received equally between the muderrises of the old and new medreses . |
| 3 | Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study . |
| 4 | When it ended , she looped her arms around his neck and asked the one question that had yet to be answered . |
| 5 | He came down looking rather puzzled , and asked the two ladies to see the boy with him . |
| 6 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 7 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |
| 8 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But their debts paid , they took off again and rode the '80s boom in commercial property . |
| 12 | Then , when she had joined him , he had shone his torch on the locks and inserted the three keys , first the Yale , and then the Ingersoll , and lastly the security lock which disconnected the electronic warning system from Guy 's Marsh police station . |
| 13 | I got up and sprinted the 150 yards or so . |
| 14 | Leaving the safety of Valencia , he marched swiftly to a wooded valley near Tevar and fortified the three entrances with stout barriers . |
| 15 | After a hearing lasting five days the Board of Review allowed the appeal and referred the four assessments back to the commissioner for revision . |
| 16 | Old friends of her father had sometimes stayed there , and invited the two girls to dinner . |
| 17 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 18 | There was no chance of them spawning while the tyrant Fire continued his reign of terror so I took a chance and moved the five Fires to another community . |
| 19 | In his opening address on 29 September the pope rejected the notion , common since Vatican I , that the authority of the pontiff alone was sufficient to govern the Church , and listed the four aims of the Council : that the Church should have a clearer idea of its own nature ; that there was need for renewal ; that Christians of all denominations be brought closer together ( he apologized for the Catholic Church 's own failings in its relations with non-Catholics ) ; and finally , the need for dialogue between Church and world . |
| 20 | Just about this time he put his hand into his jacket pocket and found the two bills from Mouncy Street . |
| 21 | The Silver Birches giggled in a skittish fashion and the Copper Beeches shook out their rippling manes of glowing leaf-hair and regarded the two Renascians through the red-gold curtains . |
| 22 | She went at once over to the table and regarded the two exhibits , the files and the scientific paraphernalia . |
| 23 | The Enterprise Centre 's ‘ local ’ LEC — LEEL has been supportive of a number of areas of the centre 's activities and sponsored the 1993 Napier Enterprise Lecture . |
| 24 | Fishermen from Devon and Cornish ports arrived throughout the night at Plymouth and stopped the 8,500 ton French-owned ferry Quiberon on an overnight crossing from Roscoff from docking . |
| 25 | He warned against running a deficit , and termed the 1989 deficit an " outstanding contradiction " resulting from the June rebellion , the non-implementation of measures to generate income and over-spending on agriculture , education , science and technology , and disaster relief . |
| 26 | Drawn to socialism by her sister , Eva , she met the Irish labour leaders , James Connolly and James Larkin [ qq.v. ] , and helped the 1913 lockout strike of Dublin workers by running a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall . |
| 27 | Barak put the Peugeot into gear and drove the hundred yards to the courtyard . |
| 28 | The 1972 Local Government Act abolished the eighty-three county boroughs in England and Wales and reduced the fifty-eight county councils to forty-seven , ranging from populations of 110,000 ( Powys ) to 1.5m ( Hampshire ) . |
| 29 | Fagin inspected the handkerchieves and told the two boys that they were extremely well made and that he was very pleased with their work . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the NSF led by former Prime Minister Petre Roman elected a new executive bureau on April 9 and condemned the NSF-22 December branch , saying that it did not exist as a party , but only " expressed an intention " . |