Example sentences of "and [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York : THE United States ' worst winter storm of the century killed at least 66 people and paralysed the east coast of the country , closing motorways and airports and leaving millions without electricity , officials said last night . |
| 2 | These cars once graced the highways of mid-America and cruised the strips of countless towns and cities across the United States . |
| 3 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 4 | Groups from Long Sela'an are still blockading Samling 's logging roads , declaring that the company has scared away the game and polluted the rivers . |
| 5 | Aluminium poisoning became famous in Britain when on Wednesday 6 July 1988 a 20-tonne lorry-load of aluminium sulphate was poured into the wrong tank at Lowermoor treatment works and polluted the water supply of Camelford in Cornwall . |
| 6 | Two years later he joined Simon of Montfort when the latter returned to England and reimposed the Provisions . |
| 7 | The tenant argues … that , inasmuch as the tenant 's obligation to pay over the deposit on the execution of the lease was an obligation to secure the performance of covenants which touched and concerned the land , it was an obligation inextricably associated with covenants whose benefit and burden would pass with the reversion in the lease respectively . |
| 8 | The origins of this legislation were particularly protracted , and concerned the question of rural amenities ; ‘ town and country ’ now became the customary title for Planning Acts . |
| 9 | From January to July my contacts with the family were infrequent and concerned the progress of the two older boys . |
| 10 | Francis & Francis and concerned the police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
| 11 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 12 | Tudhoe St Charles primary school won four of the six events in the last cross-country race of the season for youngsters from Spennymoor and Ferryhill , and shared the honours for two other events with Rosa Street school . |
| 13 | I have been helped by mentors , women and men , at various stages in my career and I have a very strong network of people who have given me advice and support when I 've needed it and shared the ups and downs . |
| 14 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
| 15 | We danced , and shared the can of champagne . |
| 16 | Every member was both producer and owner , all provided labour power and shared the products of their labour . |
| 17 | A specially trained team tortured a single victim ; each member of the team reinforced the others and shared the responsibility . |
| 18 | Britain was a member of SEATO , the US alliance organisation in the region , and shared the US interest in containing the Asian spread of communism . |
| 19 | I ca n't imagine how we would have reacted if our teacher had identified herself as a practising heterosexual and shared the secrets of her lifestyle . |
| 20 | Not that the inequity of the tip mattered , for we always pooled and shared the money evenly . |
| 21 | The intention and the vow itself were no cynical charade , for Edward had already been on crusade and shared the piety and the military enthusiasm which impelled so many to the Holy Land . |
| 22 | The Girls were most impressed when Mary bought a Daimler and employed a chauffeur so they in turn bought a car between them and shared the running costs . |
| 23 | He not only comes from Brixton but , for many years , inhabited the landscapes and shared the hopes and anxieties of the indigent respectables living in a largely Labourist collective ethos . |
| 24 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 25 | and shared the disappointment of the dolphins |
| 26 | They strolled outside again and he led her to a relatively quiet spot and they drank and shared the cake between them . |
| 27 | ‘ It was all about cooperation ; people worked together and got results and shared the spoils . ’ |
| 28 | What crisis ? ’ statement — may have been , in his eyes , a rational assessment of the situation and the media 's tendency to exaggerate , but it ignored and misjudged the impact of media imagery and , consequently , the public 's desire for reassurance and for the problem to be ‘ resolved , . |
| 29 | Mr Hughes said Sweeney picked up a knife from a table and stabbed the restaurant 's owner with it in the back of the hand . |
| 30 | For Conrad Dasypodius , however , the mathematician at Strasburg Academy who designed and planned the clock , the nominal essence would be radically different . |