Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 32 | Jed picked up his glass and swirled the last inch of beer around . |
| 33 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 34 | She could have cried with relief when at last she passed the war memorial with the crucifix and realised the next track led to the farm . |
| 35 | Undaunted , he returned a week later and made the first clean ascent . |
| 36 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |
| 37 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 38 | X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club . |
| 39 | After four days they reached 80° South , and made the first depot . |
| 40 | Despite this , Bennett led seven Hudson aircraft , with captain , co-pilot and wireless operator and made the first formation delivery flight across the Atlantic in November 1940 ; similar formation flights followed at regular intervals . |
| 41 | But as Luke joined with her and experienced the first brief resistance of her untutored flesh she felt the shock run through him . |
| 42 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 43 | This was contested by a group of countries led by the United States , and produced the first significant economic disagreement in the organization for 10 years . |
| 44 | We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at . |
| 45 | Mr Gibson said : ‘ My wife Pat phoned to tell me what happened and I just packed my bag and got the first flight . ’ |
| 46 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 47 | He hung up and got the last volume of the bigger directory from the rack under the table . |
| 48 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 49 | Johns made a second-half appearance for the Reserves in a goalless draw at Darlington and caught the next train back to London . |
| 50 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 51 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
| 52 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
| 53 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 54 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 55 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 56 | Corbett made his way through the thick clogged sand and entered the first one . |
| 57 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 58 | Also during July , Horse and Hound distributed a questionnaire in 20,000 copies of the magazine , and analysed the first 1,017 to be returned . |
| 59 | We could have started off with ten cubed and found the fourth root of that . |
| 60 | ‘ Budgie ’ was Palace 's extrovert and excellent goalkeeper through the period in which Palace sought and grasped the 2nd Division championship in 1978–79 and a stable security in Division One the following year . |