Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [adj] " 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 | Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United . |
| 5 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 6 | ‘ Yet we still sat next to each other on the team bus and shared the same room . |
| 7 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
| 8 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
| 9 | This culture , and all subsequent isolates that were identified as the epidemic strain , belonged to bacteriocin type S3/P0:ribotype A , and shared the same CHEF profile . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By Jaysus , they run to the top and stabbed the old fella to death . |
| 13 | He heard the dialling tone and stabbed the 9 button three times . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has also partly reduced the bureaucratization of farms and lessened the social distance between farmers and their workers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Twomey took away one plate and laid the next , in the centre of which a neat pile of spinach kept its cool shape immaculate . |
| 21 | He cleared his throat again and laid the little bat carefully on the table . |
| 22 | She pulled her jumper off and handed it to him , then watched as he spread it out and laid the dead animal on it . |
| 23 | He put the bottle on the low table and laid the old horn-handled corkscrew down beside it , a patient sacrifice to the economies that her careless pregnancy necessitated . |
| 24 | Curtis settled himself behind the wheel and laid the empty can on the passenger seat . |
| 25 | He went and laid the limp creature down on a tuft of grass near the fold to let its mother lick it . |
| 26 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated . |