Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Coming back from the pillar box at the end of Charteris Road , Nurse Rose met the Private Wing sister . |
| 4 | To cut a long story short — and I 'd be glad to give the details to anyone who wants — it was in Moers that our force met the Communist Party leadership of the Ruhr . |
| 5 | The authors show that unqualified mature students in their study had some educational or professional qualification and just over half ( 51% ) met the General Entrance Requirement of their particular university . |
| 6 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 7 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 8 | Talbot Square now became a focal point on the tramway system , where the new town routes met the busy Promenade track , newly relaid and extended to the Gynn . |
| 9 | Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that . |
| 10 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 11 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food when he last met the National Farmers Union to discuss the MacSharry proposals for the reform of the common agricultural policy . |
| 12 | Britain angered Iran when Mr Rushdie met the Foreign Office minister , Douglas Hogg , on 4 February , his first public meeting with a British Government minister in four years . |
| 13 | It was pointed out that he met the Foreign Office Minister , Douglas Hogg , earlier this month . |
| 14 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 15 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 16 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 17 | Even though all authorities met the 31 December deadline , good intentions on effective hospital discharges must still be proved . |
| 18 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 19 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 20 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 21 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 22 | The sense of political focus that empowered the early Screen project has been dissipated . |
| 23 | He unlocked the small side door and stepped into the darkness . |
| 24 | An important measure to encourage this trend was taken in October , when Iran 's central bank ( Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islam Iran ) doubled the foreign exchange quota available to all private-sector enterprises dealing with the public sector and set a new special exchange rate of $1.00=1,000 rials ( a fall from $1.00=1,250 rials ) . |
| 25 | The Maoist Sendero Luminoso guerrilla group sabotaged the national electricity grid on April 6 . |
| 26 | Teacher placement in industry have formed the backbone of the UBI activities since the project was set up in 1977 , but formal schemes date back to the early 1960s , with LEAs such as Leicestershire acting as pioneers in the field when the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) first piloted the three week Introduction to Industry Scheme for teachers . |
| 27 | On Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia , Mehmed II built another medrese beside the Uc Serefeli medrese and divided the 100 akce salary Ali Tusi had received equally between the muderrises of the old and new medreses . |
| 28 | He flung the damp tea towel on to the table . |
| 29 | In 1885 , Parliament passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act . |
| 30 | In order to provide for such a constitutional amendment , Parliament passed the European Communities Act in 1972 , which stated that the requirements arising now or subsequently from the Treaty ‘ are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom ’ ( European Communities Act , section 2(1) ) . |