Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband kicked it in the chest and it flew off but returned shgortly after and attacked the smallest of the dogs pinning it against a stile |
| 2 | Then he climbed on to the winner 's rostrum and became the proudest man in the world as the British National Anthem echoed around the massive Montjuic Stadium . |
| 3 | Gordon accepted the title and became the largest land- and vineyard-owner on the island . |
| 4 | The firm expanded its activities still further under his direction and became the largest employer of labour in Oldham , the workforce rising from 400 in 1837 to 6,000 in 1870 . |
| 5 | He had received a special trading privilege from Rudolf in 1592 and became the richest man in Prague . |
| 6 | BNS was established at Pontypool in South Wales post-war , and became the biggest nylon producer in Europe . |
| 7 | Question : what did Spanish film-maker Aldomovar do before he achieved world domination and became the trendiest thing on the planet ? |
| 8 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 9 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 10 | He swerved and avoided the worst of the impact , but was catapulted on to the bonnet of the car and then on to the pavement . |
| 11 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 12 | Mr Lamont clearly had his hands tied by the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement figures and made the best of a bad job with £1.5bn in tax cuts and other incentives mainly for small businesses . |
| 13 | She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand . |
| 14 | As the Robemaker 's shadow fell blackly across the floor , Fenella ducked behind the nearest rack , but Caspar , caught without hope of concealment , simply turned and made the briefest of bows . |
| 15 | Connected to a 200Mb WD Caviar 2200 drive , this potent combo made a mockery of CoreTest and produced the highest What Personal Computer Power benchmark on record , over 25,000 . |
| 16 | En Shao presided well over this strange remoteness and used the best of the atmospheric cathedral acoustic . |
| 17 | On the third day Gabriel came again to the tree and found the youngest brother keeping watch . |
| 18 | Two scientists , Schumman and Went , sampled other pines there in the mid-1950s and found the oldest to be about 4900 years , thereby almost doubling the age of their then nearest competitor , the sequoias . |
| 19 | Margaret , Louis IX 's queen , was the sister of Eleanor , queen of England , and maintained the closest connection with both Henry III and Edward I. In January 1262 , for instance , one of Henry III 's proctors at Paris , Pierre de Limoges , wrote to Walter de Merton , chancellor of England , to tell him that Queen Margaret was so occupied in the business of negotiations that she had no time to write to him . |
| 20 | NEXT , which a year ago reported one of the biggest losses ever by a British retailer , yesterday announced a return to dividends and provided the hardest evidence yet that the troubles of recent years are behind it . |
| 21 | The gendarme stopped in front of the scattered luggage and prodded the nearest haversack with his foot , ordering the students to stack their belongings in a tidy pile against the wall . |
| 22 | Finally at the field of Maledor at the very entrance to the passes of Nagarythe Caledor faced the Witch King himself in battle and defeated the mightiest of his armies , driving them into the marshes of Maledor . |
| 23 | In the days of classical agriculture , breeders and stud farmers tricked and cajoled the best features out of many species , focusing on the most economically viable lines for cattle , sheep , pigs and poultry . |
| 24 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
| 25 | She wanted clothes which reflected the 19th century Australian outlaw 's wild and woolly look , and hired the latest member of her design team , Ian McMaugh , to provide it . |
| 26 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 27 | ‘ 'Ere , you went and ate the biggest bit of cake . |
| 28 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 29 | I repeated my fruitless exercise at the end of October , and again at the end of November , when I finally relented and paid the cheapest price I could get . |
| 30 | Mud particles filtered into the animal 's bodies and preserved the finest details of their anatomy . |