Example sentences of "and [vb past] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same Spirit , of course , empowered Jesus for his rich ministry and led John the Baptist to tell others of the One who would baptize people with the Holy Spirit and with ‘ fire ’ . |
| 2 | When he 'd finished he stood up and asked Dad the time of the funeral so , he said , he could be there with the other brothers and sisters and the band . |
| 3 | The same actor then changed into the clothes of a labourer and asked people the same question , with the same wording . |
| 4 | The theory is that the greater the difference between polished and scuffed sides the more the ball will swing . |
| 5 | Michael followed him out and helped pile the waste branches into heaps for burning and then they stacked the scattered lengths of the firewood . |
| 6 | Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis has rejected his first approach and told Ferguson the England striker is not available … unless the bid is one he simply ca n't refuse . |
| 7 | I went back and told Lilian the second twin , a boy , had died because the cord was round its neck . |
| 8 | He returned and told Allah the curious story , and Allah replied : " That was not really the idol speaking my word , that was me ! " |
| 9 | She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable and assured Wilson the ladies would require only coffee in the morning and would otherwise dine elsewhere . |
| 10 | * We marched for about two hours then stopped for the night and ate fish the Indians had caught in the river while they were waiting for us . |
| 11 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 12 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 13 | He wrote it down and handed Brownlow the slip of paper . |
| 14 | Lewis reached inside his breast-pocket and handed Morse the Oxford-London London-Oxford Network South-East timetable ; but apart from briefly checking the arrival time of the 13.30 from Paddington , Morse seemed less than enthusiastic . |
| 15 | Instead she chattered about the law and the law exams and found Davide 's last letter from Riba , and showed Tommaso the flourishing strokes of her brother 's handwriting , and asked him if he too wrote with such tails on his p's and g's and such loops on his l's and d's ? |
| 16 | But she only said , ‘ Have fun then , ’ and showed Oliver the lantern she had finished . |
| 17 | After she had a hot rum toddy in a steaming , warm tub and showed Josh the trap marks on her leg , they all sat around the wooden kitchen table to eat vegetable soup , local Stilton cheese , and a salad of walnuts and chicory , followed by gingerbread that Clare had made with Mrs Gooden 's special recipe . |
| 18 | Since its launch last November , says that there has been a good deal of interest in the scheme from all sectors of the industry and added , ‘ Through controlled and managed expansion the benefits in terms of new business to the Company are tremendous ’ . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is possible to argue that in both the fields of child language and acquired disorders the earliest studies to be carried out were almost exclusively concerned with production . |
| 20 | In the middle of the night he slipped away from the Witch King 's palace and brought word the Phoenix King . |
| 21 | He narrowed his eyes and saw Hope the Merchant Prince , the aristocrat at large on the Rialtos of the world , feared , admired , dipping silkenly between caskets of treasure , tranches of land , ships , silver mines , paintings , furniture , the collector , the connoisseur , and sending all back to the lonely Scottish estate which burgeoned with those foreign infusions of antique wealth , material goods … |
| 22 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 23 | Nevertheless the Northern Ireland Executive was sworn in on 31 December 1973 and took office the following day . |
| 24 | Sequoia Systems Inc fault-tolerant users have banded together and formed SUG/GEST the Sequioa User Group/Group Exchange of Sequoia Topics : it 'll focus on sharing third-party technologies as well as vetting Sequoia products and future technologies . |
| 25 | Editor Malcolm Barker agreed to overlook the qualification requirement and offered Clayton the job . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , yes , ’ Athelstan murmured and gave Parchmeiner the details of Horne 's death . |
| 27 | The black-eyebrowed albatross was a frequent visitor to the Parsee , and gave Gould the chance to try out a crude but innovative experiment — one of the first attempts to tag and monitor a live sea bird . |
| 28 | The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues . |
| 29 | The only classy Lions ' back move of the second half came when Tony Underwood and Gibbs made sharp breaks and gave Clement the chance to burst through tackles for a converted try . |
| 30 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |