Example sentences of "[vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holden battered the free-kick against the wall and after a scramble the ball fell to Henry , who struck a low shot from more than 30 yards past Lukic . |
| 2 | We turned back to retrace our steps as a clap of thunder echoed through the valley and the wild wind battered the trees . |
| 3 | Revolving light carousels played on the compartment side of a Mk. 1 coach while wind and rain machines battered the corridor side from which David Boyce had to fall and , later Alfred Molina had to dive , to their ‘ deaths ’ . |
| 4 | By day and night spell blasts and siege engine shots battered the walls . |
| 5 | Orc war machines battered the city 's gates and broke its walls , and soon the Waaagh was inside the city itself , burning and destroying while the helpless citizens fled to the hills . |
| 6 | I watched as the rain battered the grass and the wind pummelled it , quick gusts flattening patches of the field like sudden bruises beneath the dull sky . |
| 7 | She cast a malevolent eye at the window as a squall of rain battered the glass , then began an inspection of supplies . |
| 8 | Pollution and weathering battered the surface of the glass . |
| 9 | Spence shot 69 in the near-gale that battered the morning starters to stand on 136 , eight under par . |
| 10 | The shadow Health Secretary , David Blunkett , called it ‘ a damp squib with a long fuse attached to a powder keg ’ , and the Trades Union Congress firecast the plans would cost thousands of jobs . |
| 11 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 12 | Major-General Holomisa met the president of the ANC in London recently . |
| 13 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 14 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 15 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 16 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 17 | Four bishops representing the Catholic Church and the Zimbabwe Council of Churches yesterday met the university 's Vice-Chancellor , Walter Kamba , to urge that the campus be reopened and to learn the fate of the estimated 40 students arrested following the protests . |
| 18 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 19 | Mr Owen met the Home Secretary , Douglas Hurd , on 20 September and suggested that senior officials within the Department of Health , the social services and various community bodies should meet to discuss the problem . |
| 20 | Easily recognised by his boar 's head tie , his enthusiasm and appetite was first whetted when he met the ‘ iron-age ’ pig several years ago . |
| 21 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 22 | That 's why he met the seven earlier in the afternoon . |
| 23 | She comfortably made her semi-final , where she met the Canadian , Nathalie Gosselin . |
| 24 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 25 | We next met the day he arrived in Normandy . |
| 26 | After the ceremony Sir Michael and Lady Graydon circulated amongst the guests and met the residents before partaking of an excellent buffet lunch provided by RAF Cottesmore — another example of the support given by the serving RAF . |
| 27 | On a return visit to Fettes , Arthur Ramsey stayed with one of the housemasters and met the sister Agnes Wilson , who kept house there . |
| 28 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 29 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 30 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |