Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Twomey took away one plate and laid the next , in the centre of which a neat pile of spinach kept its cool shape immaculate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 5 | Whilst in the turn Lt Ferris broke away from Lt Marrons ' and attacked the second element of Jigger Green . |
| 6 | On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission . |
| 7 | But when Mr Cheng looked at his papers and asked the first question , Hassan closed his eyes . |
| 8 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 9 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
| 10 | Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it . |
| 11 | He won six amateur titles from 1926 to 1934 and became the first Canadian to win the United States amateur crown , in 1932 . |
| 12 | In the following years the population in the areas of West Bowling and Horton increased enormously with the growth of the worsted industry and the building of new steam-powered mills , so that in November 1881 Canon Motler established St Joseph 's as a new parish and became the first parish priest himself . |
| 13 | , and became the first lay students of Ushaw College , the Northern Catholic seminary , to train for ministry . |
| 14 | It was also the season in which he captained England at Lord 's , in the absence of W.G. Grace , and became the first captain in Test history to declare an innings closed . |
| 15 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 16 | One of those interested in the opportunities for détente was Winston Churchill who was British premier once more and became the first major European statesman to advocate a relaxation of tensions with Russia . |
| 17 | He was educated at Elphinstone College where he remained as a teacher and became the first Indian professor with his appointment to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy ( 1854 ) . |
| 18 | Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act . |
| 19 | He was one of the first proponents of detente towards eastern Europe and became the first Western head of government to receive Arab leaders such as Yassir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Col. Kadhafi of Libya . |
| 20 | Queen Elizabeth II paid an official nine-day visit to the USA starting on May 14 , and became the first United Kingdom sovereign to address the US Congress , meeting in joint session on May 16 . |
| 21 | He made his name as mayor of West Berlin in 1957-66 , was Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor from 1966 to 1969 , and became the first SPD Chancellor in 1969 [ see p. 23618 ] . |
| 22 | SUNDERLAND Harrier David Clark scored a unique double yesterday when he won Durham City Nike Destiny Run for the second year running and became the first to break 20 minutes for the four-mile race . |
| 23 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 24 | After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch . |
| 25 | She was a devout Anabaptist and befriended James Burton , who was involved in the Rye House Plot , and gave him sanctuary , but she was betrayed and taken to London , where she was tried and became the last woman to be burnt at the stake at Tyburn on 16th October , 1685 . |
| 26 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 27 | If you did n't look up too much , and avoided the fourth side with its terribly huge views across the countryside , you could almost believe you were back in the Store . |
| 28 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 29 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 30 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |