Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later , Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard . |
| 2 | Carol Clark met the psychologist 6 years ago . |
| 3 | Acheson met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 24 March to discuss the proposals for Greece and Turkey and to answer questions on Korea . |
| 4 | I have travelled the region many times and always with enjoyment , but never with the eager anticipation of journeys in the north . |
| 5 | YVONNE Murray has Mary Decker 's eight-year-old record of 5min 34.8sec in her sights as she tackles the rarely-run 2,000 metres at the star-studded TSB International in Birmingham today . |
| 6 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 7 | The landowner could terminate the tenancy at his pleasure , but , given the nature of farming , at pleasure would normally mean giving notice on certain days of the year , and allowing the tenant six months , principally in order to gather such crops as he may have planted . |
| 8 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 9 | The aircraft ran through a hedge before contacting the greenhouses 400 yards off the end of the runway , there were no casualties . |
| 10 | We have already seen that failure satisfactorily to surmount the Oedipus complex results in pre-Oedipal fixations , notably at the anal and oral stages , and it may be here that we can find the primitive , rudimentary superego elements which can , and indeed must , remain when the mature superego does not develop . |
| 11 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 12 | An Herefordshire company , Border Oak , is building the oak framed houses . |
| 13 | It was the first time he had conceded a game since building the device three years earlier . |
| 14 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 15 | He also confronts the Rhodesia Front men — whom his family know well — with a few fresh ideas . |
| 16 | This involves the way these firms perceive their marketing effort . |
| 17 | It can capture the nuances of soft and sensitive voices ; it alone can convey the rapport five singers achieve in the bonded intimacy of chamber music-making . |
| 18 | The State passed the bill 96 votes to 3 . |
| 19 | He is a bit younger , of course , and probably thinks I 'm an old fuddy-duddy , as well as avuncular ( as he insists on reminding the viewers most evenings ) . |
| 20 | Feminists active in the disability rights movement have criticized the way many women have used the fear of disability to argue for abortion rights , and ask us to reassess our relationship to genetic screening . |
| 21 | On July 31 , the Afghan government had criticized the ICO Foreign Ministers ' decision in Riyadh in March 1989 [ see p. 36537 ] to allocate " the Republic of Afghanistan seat … to the Afghan opposition based in Pakistan " . |
| 22 | If you swing the club at 100 mph , you can expect to hit the ball 200 yards . |
| 23 | This drama and first brush with exile seems to have taught the Shah several things . |
| 24 | The Iraqi government on April 7 agreed to UN demands to demolish the Al-Atheer nuclear weapons complex [ see p. 38838 ] . |
| 25 | On Sept. 30-Oct. 1 it had come second in a rival poll for a National Congress , behind the National Independence Party ( which also boycotted the Oct. 28 elections ) . |
| 26 | The left margin only : tap Enter ; then tap a cursor ( direction ) key to cancel the highlight Both margins : tap the Right key twice to select right indent : |
| 27 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 28 | Falls in the price of oil had provoked the government four years previously to impose an austerity programme . |
| 29 | Repeat the exercise several times on each leg . |
| 30 | Repeat the process several times until the green becomes marbled with white . |