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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

pass

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bill is passed by parliament (=it is made into a law)

▪ The bill was passed by Parliament last May.

a bus pass (=a card that allows you to make several bus journeys)

▪ Most of the students have a termly bus pass.

a car passes/overtakes sb

▪ A small black car overtook me on my left.

a deadline passes (=the date or time by which you must do something goes past)

▪ The deadline had already passed for him to raise the money.

a month passes/goes by

▪ Seven months went by before he returned.

a mountain pass (=a path or road between mountains)

▪ Their journey took them through river valleys and over mountain passes.

a passing comment (=a quick comment made without thinking about it very carefully)

▪ She got upset about a passing comment I made about her clothes.

a passing mention (=a brief mention when other things seem more important)

▪ There was only a passing mention of the event in the paper.

a passing reference (=one that you make while you are talking about something else)

▪ He made only a passing reference to his injury.

a passing resemblance (=slight)

▪ There was no more than a passing resemblance between the sisters.

a passing stranger (=one you pass in the street)

▪ Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you.

a passing thought (=a quick, not very serious thought)

▪ He never gives his appearance more than a passing thought.

a shudder ran/passed/went through sb

▪ A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers.

a storm abates/passes

▪ We sat and waited for the storm to pass.

an examination pass

▪ To apply, you need at least two A-level examination passes.

become legend/pass into legend

▪ The incident became legend.

boarding pass

bus pass

come/go/pass etc through an entrance

▪ People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.

danger passes (=there is no longer any danger)

▪ At last the sound of bombing had stopped and the danger had passed.

go/pass through a cycle

▪ Advanced economies seem to go through a regular cycle.

go/pass unnoticed

▪ His remark went unnoticed by everyone except me.

Hail Mary pass

hand/pass/give/send out a leaflet

▪ Students were handing out election leaflets at the station.

have a passing/nodding acquaintance with sth (=have only slight knowledge or experience of something)

▪ He has a passing acquaintance with a lot of different subjects.

mention sth in passing (=mention something without much detail, especially while you were talking about something else)

▪ She mentioned in passing that she had an eight-year-old son.

mourn sb’s death/loss/passing

▪ She still mourns the death of her husband.

mourn...passing

▪ The old steam trains were much loved, and we all mourn their passing.

pass (a) commentBritish English (= give an opinion)

▪ He looked at my photos but he didn’t pass comment.

pass a law

▪ New Jersey passed a law requiring helmets for scooter riders.

pass a test (=succeed in it)

▪ She passed her driving test first time.

pass an act

▪ Once Parliament has passed an act, it becomes the law of the land.

pass an exam (=succeed in it)

▪ Did you pass your final exam?

pass an examination (=succeed in it)

▪ I really hope that Suzie passes the examination.

pass an inspection

▪ The supermarket can only trade if it passes the cleanliness inspection.

pass judgment (on sth) (=give your opinion, especially a negative one)

▪ Our aim is to help him, not to pass judgment on what he has done.

pass legislation (=officially approve it so that it becomes law)

▪ Legislation was passed banning the use of child labour.

pass on a disease (also transmit a diseaseformal)

▪ They may pass the disease on to their children.

pass on a gene (=pass a gene to your children)

▪ All animals try to maximize their chances of passing on their genes to the next generation.

pass on a tip

▪ The writer passes on many tips that she has learned over the years.

pass on some advice (=give someone advice that you have learned or been given)

▪ Readers can pass on advice about gardening.

pass on/relay/deliver a message (=give someone a message from someone else)

▪ I asked Rob if he would pass on a message for me.

pass sentenceformal (= officially say what someone’s punishment will be)

▪ It is now my duty to pass sentence.

pass sth from one generation to the next

▪ Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.

pass the time (=spend a period of time doing something)

▪ The prisoners pass the time reading, or writing letters.

pass/approve a resolution

▪ The Security Council passed a resolution condemning the country’s aggression.

pass/carry/approve a motion (=accept it by voting)

▪ The motion was carried unanimously.

passed...death sentence on

▪ In 1987, the government passed a death sentence on the river by granting permission for the new dam.

passed...vote of no confidence

▪ On April 22 the National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the government.

pass/fail a course

▪ If you pass the course, you get a diploma in psychology.

passing fancy (=the feeling did not last long)

▪ Wanting to go to Mexico was just a passing fancy.

Things have come to a pretty pass

▪ Things have come to a pretty pass, if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight.

throw away/pass up/turn down a chance (=not accept or use an opportunity)

▪ Imagine throwing up a chance to go to America!

time passes/goes by

▪ As time passed, she thought less and less about her family back home.

transmit/pass on a virus (=pass it from one person or animal to another)

▪ The rabies virus is transmitted in saliva when one animal bites another.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

▪ What matters is how many genes are passed on.

▪ We look this problem firmly in the eye and pass on.

▪ Mr Fitton passed on, he did.

▪ If they agree on a pardon, it is passed on to the White House.

▪ For a start there was the gloomy news he had to pass on to Jacqui.

▪ I have a tip to pass on to other readers.

▪ Phoenix Councilman Craig Tribken passed on the offer, sort of.

■ NOUN

act

▪ Once Parliament has passed an act, it becomes the law of the land.

▪ Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to accelerate the transition of telephone and video services from regulated to competitive markets.

▪ I have to be loyal to the decision of Parliament, which passed the War Crimes Act 1991.

▪ Then, a couple of weeks ago, Congress passed the Telecommunications Reform Act, which eases restrictions on cross-ownership of media.

▪ She passed several acts to make legal strikes all but impossible, and to imprison her opponents at will.

▪ At the same time, Congress passed an act reducing tariff rates.

▪ The basic task of the judge when construing legislation is to ascertain Parliament's intention when passing the Act.

bill

▪ As a result, there are large bills to be paid - bills which are being passed on to ordinary community charge payers.

▪ In any case, the amendment was lost when the bill failed to pass.

▪ The Bill will soon pass through the House and go to the House of Lords.

▪ Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.

▪ The dissenting Tory peers stayed away; and the Bill was passed.

▪ Under the bill the House passed yesterday, individuals still would not have to prove insolvency.

▪ A bill was passed reducing the tax profit level from 50 to 40 percent and 35 percent in agriculture.

▪ At issue is the telecom bill, passed by Congress overwhelmingly last week.

buck

▪ If in doubt, pass the buck.

▪ Shouldn't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck?

▪ I personally refuse to pass the buck.

▪ We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck.

▪ Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck.

▪ Mr. Loyden Is not the Minister passing the buck?

▪ When anything like this happened, every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department.

comment

▪ I feel that I can not allow this statement to pass without due comment.

▪ In years past, the president sent the budget over and the Chamber dutifully passed it with little comment.

▪ Because persuading people to be unpaid referees is difficult it could be argued that editors have to pass the comments on.

▪ Anyone recording or passing on such a comment is in danger now that records are open.

▪ I trust you will pass the above comments to the Licensing Sub-Committee when they meet to determine this case.

▪ All this makes for a sea change in our lives, yet passes without comment during this campaign.

exam

▪ She had to pass her exams.

▪ Anyone who has passed an exam to get into an important university is dedicated enough to do well for the firm.

▪ Reply: It was the day I passed my exam.

▪ Nevertheless, fifteen of the eighteen students passed the exam.

▪ If teachers only got paid for pupils passing their exams, there are some pupils who'd never get any education at all.

▪ She graduated and passed bar exams in two states on her first try.

▪ I want to pass all my exams, I want my mum and dad to be proud of me.

▪ Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.

generation

▪ The songs of some birds are passed down the generations by education.

▪ The narratives help parents become conscious of the negative and positive traditions passed down through the generations.

▪ A generation passed, an entire generation.

▪ They're living proof that asthma can be passed from generation to generation.

▪ The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation.

▪ Such tastes are passed from one generation to the other, reinforced by the environment in which a family exists.

▪ They are part of the culture of society and are passed on from one generation to the next.

hand

▪ Iris passed a hand over her forehead.

▪ The dew vanished from the flowers; they began to lose their freshness and to wilt, passing from hand to hand.

▪ Coins, jewelry, postage stamps, a Matisse litho, all passed through my hands.

▪ Directors Share Protection provides for the shares of a director who dies to pass into the right hands.

▪ Many of the germs that cause disease pass from our hands into our mouths; so can environmental metal toxins like lead.

▪ She closed her eyes and passed her hand over them and looked again.

▪ I put the gun down and passed my hand over my eyes.

information

▪ The Senate panel decided that it wanted to question Fiers and George concerning whether they had passed the information on to Gates.

▪ Informed by the two farmers, local authorities passed the information up the chain of command.

▪ It passed this information on in a terrible hushed whine that seemed to creep in and fill the head.

▪ A paddle stroke is like any other model or diagram which is used to pass on information.

▪ Ubaldo Valesio reckoned that some one in the family was passing on information.

▪ Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards.

law

▪ It was very good to pass a special law for that.

▪ He lobbied the legislature at Albany to pass a law limiting electric currents to eight hundred volts.

▪ In due course, the government's response was to pass a law and appoint an Alkali Inspector named Angus Smith.

▪ I see well. meaning legislators across the land passing laws against themselves as if the victim will always be some one else.

▪ Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan all passed laws to restrict benefits and introduce time limits.

▪ Could they possibly have passed any laws against those odds?

▪ The final version of the Weimar Constitution was passed into law on 11 August 1919.

▪ Catholics passed laws against intermarriage between people of the two faiths.

legislation

▪ Both states have recently passed legislation to make securitisation simpler.

▪ They passed legislation that often made it impossible for ordinary citizens to sue for their injuries.

▪ Franklin placed his own hopes on the idea that the Westminster Parliament would pass legislation to set up a union.

▪ After the meeting, some Democrats, recognizing the difficulty of passing taggant legislation, called for a study of the matter.

▪ Twenty three states have passed term limits legislation restricting the amount of time their congressional members may serve.

▪ To pass, the legislation needed 31 votes.

▪ If the Legislature fails to pass enabling legislation, some will place their product elsewhere.

▪ Last week, the House passed, 418-9, legislation that was later adopted by the Senate on a voice vote.

message

▪ I was in the middle of them both and passing on horrible messages from one to the other.

▪ Nor did Bo ever meet his superior, who passed him messages through an intermediary.

▪ The way horses pass messages between themselves will be the way that they will try and impart a message to us.

▪ And because of this luxury, the women used me to pass messages.

▪ I should have told her it was important to pass the message on immediately.

▪ The book trade should have an interest in passing on that message.

▪ He might try you again, but I said I'd pass the message along.

▪ We can always pass the message on to other runners.

resolution

▪ Following a debate on Nov. 23 it passed a resolution giving Gorbachev two weeks to produce detailed plans.

▪ Such use of the will is far different from what ordinarily passes for resolution in the everyday world.

▪ Parliament would have unlimited access to the funds, but would have to pass specific resolutions to appropriate money.

▪ Despite the southern opposition, both houses passed the resolution.

▪ In such cases the company's directors pass a resolution that the company be wound up.

▪ The House passed the resolution by 409 to 3, while it went through the Senate by 8-to 3.

▪ Did it pass resolutions to spend more money and get itself organised to ensure that the police could run themselves properly?

▪ Then in 1758 the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting passed a surprising resolution to exclude slave buyers and sellers.

sentence

▪ She felt suddenly, confusedly, a little like a man who had voluntarily passed a death sentence on himself.

▪ Lord Taylor's main point is to suggest that judges should pass sentence with an eye to the public's expectations.

▪ They will have to pass shorter sentences.

▪ The law must be changed to allow the courts to pass severe prison sentences on these so-called joyriders.

▪ Read in studio Magistrates watched the seven minute video before passing sentence.

▪ Judge Gerald Butler told him he had no option but to pass a custodial sentence.

▪ But the disappearance of his son, Larry, in the war has passed its own sentence on the family.

test

▪ I could use you - if you pass the tests, of course.

▪ The disabled could be shut out of gun ownership because of difficulty passing a proficiency test.

▪ If he passes the test, he ascends D4 feet that round.

▪ In that eventuality, such an algorithm, if it could be found, would presumably pass the Turing test.

▪ Have I passed the memory test?

▪ Even this, however, gives little clue about what life-forms may pass the survival test.

▪ Such joints are said to pass most of the tests in the specifications for wood adhesives.

▪ Caldwell passed a high-school proficiency test and left home at 17.

time

▪ She knew all that and, more, she had actually been passing at the time.

▪ He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest.

▪ The pilots consequently had nothing to do and passed their time playing cards.

▪ He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp.

▪ Today, I am patient about the passing of time.

▪ I heard you at it so I thought I'd pop in and pass the time of day.

▪ I passed my time watching the inmates do exercises.

vote

▪ A drive in a limousine is passed by silent vote.

▪ The Presidio bill and the huge parks package it was tied to passed by unanimous voice vote.

▪ The bill was passed by 241 votes to 55, with 55 abstentions.

▪ A few hours later, it passed by seventy votes to twenty-three.

▪ Congress formally passed a vote of thanks to the new president.

▪ The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.

▪ With the new dynamic of California politics, getting any ballot measure passed with just Anglo votes is fast becoming impossible.

■ VERB

let

▪ They knocked against linked bodies, which parted to let them pass.

▪ As they had need, they drew aside to let ore wagons pass with their loads of concentrate and matte.

▪ He stood aside to let it pass.

▪ Darkness threw a cloak over my strangeness, so that people let me pass with a nod or a softly called greeting.

▪ I let two more minutes pass then tap Des on the shoulder.

▪ I let three beats pass before I said anything.

▪ She was simply more aggressive, less able to let things pass than Lisbie.

▪ People got clear off the trail to let them pass.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

come to a pretty pass

make/pass water

▪ For example, to make water, burn one weight of hydrogen with eight of oxygen.

▪ How often should I make water changes, and how should I mix the salt?

▪ I can not pass water without a forgotten claimant reaching for what is his.

▪ Pollutions which are high in suspended solids make water appear murky and leave deposits on the beds and banks of watercourses.

▪ The highest-performance combination of rocket propellants is hydrogen and oxygen, which burn to make water.

▪ The same device, run backwards, reacts hydrogen and oxygen together to make water and generate electrical power.

▪ Topping up is by a hose, placed soas to pass water through the filter before reaching the pond.

▪ Zubrin proposes using the Sabatier process to react hydrogen with carbon dioxide to make water vapor and methane.

mention/note sth in passing

▪ He noted, in passing, that he had lasted longer than Texas Sen.

▪ In Exodus the quails were mentioned only in passing.

▪ Like many more, presumably, we mention Ribblehead in passing.

pass muster (as sth)

▪ Although they hail from Quebec, the hurdy-gurdy of this ensemble is sure to pass muster with the average colonial.

▪ And Mel Gibson does pass muster as a filthy freedom fighter with a talent for decapitation.

▪ As pitchforks they certainly pass muster.

▪ Critically surveying her reflection, she told herself she would pass muster.

▪ It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction.

▪ It may pass muster as television commentary but on the page its studied neutrality rings false.

▪ The schools might not have been able to offer courses that would pass muster.

▪ When it came to the physical attributes that Fred plainly valued, Lou Spooner passed muster.

pass the buck

▪ a bunch of politicians all trying to pass the buck

▪ Diplomats say NATO is clearly at fault, and that officials there are trying to pass the buck.

▪ It's easy to pass the buck and blame someone else for your failure.

▪ It was his mistake but he tried to pass the buck to another manager.

▪ You were in charge of that project, so don't try to pass the buck.

▪ I personally refuse to pass the buck.

▪ If in doubt, pass the buck.

▪ Mr. Loyden Is not the Minister passing the buck?

▪ Shouldn't we now be acknowledging blame rather than passing the buck?

▪ Some patients and carers were also unhappy about what they saw as sub-optimal care or different services passing the buck.

▪ We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck.

▪ When anything like this happened, every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department.

pass the hat around

▪ Airbus will anyway soon be passing the hat around again for an enormous 700-seat aeroplane, much bigger than the Boeing 747.

pass the time of day (with sb)

passing days/weeks/years etc

▪ As a young woman, she was pretty, slender, and graceful and she remained so with the passing years.

▪ Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress, an anachronism that has survived the passing years.

▪ Over the passing years, time had been cruel to nearly everybody else.

▪ Over the passing years, time had been kind to Caduta Massi.

▪ The passing years took their toll, of course, and he did go into a decline when Grandmother died.

▪ Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.

the passing of time/the years

▪ The passing of the years has not weakened his artistic ability.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ "Do you want to go fishing Saturday?" "Sorry, I'll have to pass this time."

▪ "I'm taking my driving test today." "Do you think you'll pass?"

▪ A big Cadillac passed us as we walked up the hill.

▪ A police car passed us doing 90 miles an hour.

▪ As time passes, the disease progresses through several distinct stages.

▪ Congress has passed an education-reform law.

▪ Could you pass the salt, please?

▪ Dan's worried he won't pass calculus.

▪ Details of the attack had been passed to enemy agents.

▪ Do you think you'll pass?

▪ Dr. Todd said the pain would pass in a day or two.

▪ Each car has to be passed by a team of inspectors before it leaves the factory.

▪ Ellis quickly passed the note to the woman, looking around to check that no one had noticed.

▪ Hey, pass me the ball!

▪ His blood pressure was rather high so the doctor couldn't pass him as fit for the job.

▪ I'll get you some aspirin - I pass the drugstore on the way to work.

▪ I pass her house every day on my way to work.

▪ If he stays injury-free, Stumpel should pass his personal best of 76 points.

▪ Johnson passes to White, White passes to Eliot, and Eliot scores!

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Actually, they ran better than they passed, although they passed spectacularly on occasion.

▪ He drums his fingers on the chairback as he passes.

▪ In August that year $ 25 million worth of vaccine was backlogged and in danger of passing its six-month expiration date.

▪ Moreover, the most important legislation for bond market investors -- the 1996 budget bill -- has already been passed.

▪ Taylor receive discounts from publishers, which they agree to pass along to customers.

▪ This falling from the branch business, she thought, made you realise how the years were passing.

▪ Who ever had it then still had it, or had passed it on.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

back

▪ Joe Worrall who had a good game otherwise, decided this was a back pass.

▪ I was astonished how fast the game has become since the back pass rule has changed.

▪ Possession is nine-tenths of the law and the back pass is safe and sure.

▪ A back pass to McConnell saw the keeper mis-hit the clearance to Ferguson who provided the perfect lob into the net.

▪ This time the keeper made a hash of a back pass from Brown.

▪ He can not handle the back pass ... never has done.

▪ The defence as a whole do not deal with the back pass rule well.

free

▪ They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.

▪ But a free pass to first base is not help.

▪ Langbaurgh and Stockton are both considering either scrapping free passes or asking pensioners to contribute towards them.

▪ Bus pass reprieve: Langbaurgh pensioners' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April.

high

▪ The Hercules made another, much higher pass, its whine almost lost in the roaring sea.

▪ From the highest mountain pass to the busiest city centre.

▪ This is a high pass, and closed for seven months in the year.

▪ If he shouted aloud then - as in the high alpine passes - the rocks would crash down on him.

▪ Snow may linger on the high passes as late as June.

▪ And then, at last, I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.

long

▪ The Springboks poured forward, long passes threatening to release Paulse and Williams.

▪ If they could get over a long and difficult pass in the mountains, they would be safe.

▪ First his long pass, and a short one from Daniel Gartner, set up a simple second for Rigon.

▪ On a long pass route, the legs of Michael Irvin and Rod Woodson became entangled.

▪ Further, his long passes, very frequently missing out one player, always threatened something interesting in the middle.

▪ As a result Chelsea became increasingly reliant on the ability of Gianfranco Zola to thread long passes through thickets of players.

▪ A long pass by Andy Gregory almost conceded an early try but Graeme Hallas knocked on as he went for the interception.

low

▪ Long, low passes confused the most dogged defences to create scoring chances.

▪ At first, it appeared as if Hostetler completed a low, third-down pass to Tim Brown.

▪ I had wanted to cross a relatively low pass at the western end of the range.

short

▪ The Quakers relied too heavily on the mighty hit rather than short passes.

▪ Hostetler dumped one short pass to Derrick Fenner, who rambled into the end zone.

▪ Brad Johnson, filling in for the injured Warren Moon, completed three short passes.

▪ The Lions play a perplexingly soft defense, where they willingly allow teams to throw short, underneath passes.

▪ This means that the parasites live shorter lives and pass through more generations in a given time than their hosts.

▪ Williams is the blocker and catcher of short passes.

■ NOUN

bus

▪ I can't even get a bus pass.

▪ They may soon be getting free bus passes but they know how to rock.

▪ I got a social worker and she suggested I get a bus pass, so I could get to town.

▪ Townspeople are being asked to sign a petition to help save the bus passes of Langbaurgh's 22,000 pensioners and disabled.

▪ All the aggravation about replacing by bus pass, credit cards and library cards etc, all because I was thoughtless.

▪ Free bus passes offered to parents in return for acting as supervisors.

▪ Bus pass reprieve: Langbaurgh pensioners' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April.

mark

▪ It is not a pass mark and yet all children are supposed to aspire to it.

▪ Instead, the pass mark was set higher for girls!

▪ For example, what pass mark would they set for an examination they are about to sit?

▪ How would students react to you setting a pass mark of say 80%?

mountain

▪ From the highest mountain pass to the busiest city centre.

▪ Employees try to avoid mountain passes, commercial airports and major cities.

▪ Its passengers swing around like boxed chickens in the back of a livestock lorry on a mountain pass.

▪ Their bags were filled with food and provisions light to carry but strong enough to bring them over the mountain passes.

▪ One of the bulls had been bitten by a wildcat one night, on a mountain pass coming down from Dolpo.

▪ I knew that true love, real love, could not make its way through the mountain passes to North Chittendon.

▪ And then, at last, I crossed a high mountain pass to discover smoke drifting across my route.

rate

▪ In addition, the pass rates go up and down like a yo-yo.

▪ In November 1988 the pass rate was 15%.

▪ These courses proved highly popular with our lads and there was practically a hundred percent pass rate.

▪ The results are astonishing-more than twice the average A-C pass rate for the school.

▪ He maintains he achieved his high pass rate by year-long cramming with similar papers.

▪ But the crux of the change is the end of the grade C, generally accepted as a pass rate.

▪ The widespread confusion between raw number of passes and percentage pass rates is illustrative here.

▪ These included the effects on the pass rate of different pass marks, and of different aggregation procedures.

rusher

▪ Bruce should provide help as a run defender while Wallace would be used as a designated pass rusher.

▪ Of the Jones guys, Marcus is rated the better pass rusher.

▪ A defensive coach, Tobin selected defensive end Simeon Rice of Illinois, regarded as the best pass rusher in the draft.

▪ When you get a chance to get a first-rate pass rusher, you better take it.

touchdown

▪ He was beaten on three touchdown passes, two by the Seahawks' Joey Galloway.

▪ Hostetler capped the drive by evading the pass rush, scrambling to his left and lofting a four-yard touchdown pass to Jett.

▪ Hostetler connected with his old favorite, Brown, for a 19-yard touchdown pass.

▪ In one game in the exhibition season, Raiders coach Mike White challenged a call on a touchdown pass.

▪ He threw 17 touchdown passes and only five interceptions to finish with a 100. 7 rating.

▪ Troy Aikman threw a six-yard, third-down touchdown pass to tight end Eric Bjornson after a six-play, 15-yard drive.

▪ That one sent the Raiders spiraling into a realm of hopelessness after Elway threw a late game-winning touchdown pass.

▪ They had done the same on a game-winning touchdown pass against Kansas City in Week 2.

■ VERB

board

▪ After that for ferries, but not other classes of vessel, boarding passes were introduced.

▪ You will have to see him Patel was handed his boarding pass.

▪ He gestured to me to push my way up to the front and then pressed a precious boarding pass into my hand.

▪ At the airport, they provide that number along with photo identification to receive a boarding pass.

catch

▪ Floyd has also caught 16 passes.

▪ He had nine carries for 47 yards and caught three passes for 48 yards.

▪ Michael Irvin caught six passes and never once signaled for his own first down.

▪ Jeff George threw for 260 yards, with Tim Brown catching seven passes for 107 yards.

▪ Truitt caught 10 passes for 131 yards.

▪ Ismail caught only three passes for 95 yards, while nursing a minor ankle injury.

▪ He caught just three passes for 25 yards and seemed to be used as a decoy most of the game.

▪ Starting wideout James Jett ran up and down the field busily, but he never caught a single pass.

complete

▪ He has completed 121 of 218 passes for 1, 354 yards and eight touchdowns with five interceptions this season.

▪ Junior Marquez Shaw showed a lot of poise in completing nine of 12 passes for 150 yards and three touchdowns.

▪ He completed five of nine passes, including a touchdown.

▪ Junior Tim Carey completed 7 of 11 passes but had one perfectly thrown 40-yard bomb dropped by a backup wide receiver.

▪ He completed 25 of 37 passes for 271 yards, but threw two interceptions and only one touchdown pass.

▪ Remember how Dameyune Craig completed seven-of-28 passes against the press-man?

▪ Elway completed 14 of 23 passes for 227 yards, and tight end Shannon Sharpe had eight receptions for 174 yards.

▪ Hobert quickly released the ball on third-and-eight, completing a 10-yard pass to Daryl Hobbs at the Kansas City 14.

drop

▪ Weinke threw off-target and the Seminoles' receivers dropped passes on many occasions when they were open.

▪ But Andre Hastings dropped a pass on first down.

▪ There was a fumble on the 1-yard line and Brown dropped a sure touchdown pass.

▪ Dudley also dropped one pass and watched Ray Lewis wrest away another for an interception.

▪ They dropped passes and blew assignments.

▪ And in that one, Yancey Thigpen dropped a sure touchdown pass that would have won the game.

▪ Do you remember any 49ers dropping passes this season?

make

▪ He'd recognize him again, and make the pass.

▪ She goes on to make two great passes, two assists, and then sink another three-point basket.

▪ He made some measure of pass at me.

▪ He looks too much to make a big pass rather than do what comes naturally, which is score.

▪ By the by Sylvia de Charmante made a huge pass at him and he turned her down flat.

▪ He made several passes in the dark, shot down one B-24 and badly damaged a second.

▪ He is at his best when he comes inside, makes a positive pass and then gets on his bike.

▪ He swept down the gorge, circled round, and made a second pass at the Falls to lose altitude.

score

▪ Mr Foecke has claimed he scored passes in 13 out of 13 final exam papers.

throw

▪ When Hostetler returns, he will no longer throw passes toward Ismail.

▪ When Zeier finally found an open man downfield, he threw a pass off the head of umpire Bob Wagner.

▪ For every breakaway, or thrown pass, there is some one willing to hustle down court to play defense.

▪ But that was before Mike Catt began to throw out his wonder passes.

▪ He threw 17 touchdown passes and only five interceptions to finish with a 100. 7 rating.

▪ It was the sturdy Bates who fielded Morris's kick in the last second and threw the long pass inside to Davies.

▪ Humphries responded by throwing four touchdown passes, including three to Tony Martin.

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come to a pretty pass

come to pass

▪ And so it came to pass.

▪ But it's not really surprising that this accommodation should come to pass.

▪ It really did come to pass.

▪ It will come to pass, shortly I presume, that others will come forward to claim they wrote the book.

▪ None of this may come to pass, but all efforts to prevent it so far have backfired.

▪ Such regulations may someday come to pass, but perhaps not soon enough for the butternut.

▪ The odds on this coming to pass are daunting.

▪ Whatever the priestess at Delphi said would happen infallibly came to pass.