Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the use of a new gauge led to a simple practical problem — the break of gauge where the broad met the narrow gauge with the consequent need for transshipment of goods and passengers . |
| 3 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 4 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 5 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 6 | Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A delegation of five Conservative MPs yesterday met the Prime Minister and left Downing Street convinced they had made ‘ enormous progress ’ in persuading Mrs Thatcher to make a one-off ex-gratia payment to the victims . |
| 9 | After a lengthy discussion with the Foreign Minister , Mr Qian Qichen , they met the Prime Minister , Mr Li Peng , and the Communist Party leader , Mr Jiang Zemin . |
| 10 | Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else . |
| 11 | On Aug. 7 Greguric met the Prime Minister of the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) , Milan Panic , in Budapest , with the mediation of Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall . |
| 12 | After a weekend of uproar over reports that the Government intended to by-pass Parliament if defeated on the Maastricht bill and ratify the treaty anyway , Mr Hurd met the Prime Minister , John Major , the Leader in the Lords , John Wakeham , and the Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , at Downing Street yesterday morning . |
| 13 | WHAT a moving picture ( right ) of Kerry Needham when she met the blond boy who was not her son . |
| 14 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 15 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 16 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |
| 17 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 18 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 19 | I met the two brothers , Ernie and Sidney , last night . ’ |
| 20 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 21 | Jeremy Vole met the two hedgehogs as they joined the crowd . |
| 22 | ‘ Er , we met the other day . |
| 23 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 24 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 25 | My father met the poor creature , who fled at his approach . |
| 26 | His first destination was the headquarters of the ANC in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , where he met the exiled ANC executive committee , and other leaders of the Frontline states and Commonwealth representatives , and was greeted with the ceremony normally reserved for heads of state . |
| 27 | The can chair was then put in and where the dark plants in the garden met the paler grass . |
| 28 | The most awkward joints were where the glazing bars met the curved members , any-way , after cutting about fifty joints in all , rebates for glass , slots for fielded panels , mouldings on corners and moulded glazing fillets the time had come for a complete dry assembly of the members . |
| 29 | He met the new left , was sometimes intrigued by it , but it was a different , and largely incomprehensible , world . |
| 30 | She flushed as she met the quizzical expression in Helen 's eyes . |