Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
| 2 | Well , those beautiful ones , those beautiful heads and things he did after he met that girl called Marie-Thérèse Walter I always think those are so beautiful . |
| 3 | It had without doubt been a day to remember and now whenever I look at my LNWR Boilerhouse Private plate , I think of poor unfortunate Fred Grisenthwaite and his tragic demise , and then recall the Railway Hotel bar room and the kind friends I met that night . |
| 4 | Not even in Paradise Street had Rose met that phenomenon . |
| 5 | You met that man last night , Stephen . |
| 6 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
| 7 | How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax ? |
| 8 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
| 9 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 10 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 11 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 12 | Looking ahead , Dr Ryan expected economic recovery , together with the cutback in production of aircraft and the retirement of old equipment to bring supply and demand back into balance . |
| 13 | Munich , Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain made enthralling reading in the Manchester but what Mr Douglas remembers was the spirit of friendship offered by the school towards the refugees of the Spanish Civil War and Hitler 's Germany . |
| 14 | During the period 1983-84 to 1989-90 , the scheme assisted 902 projects , disbursed £31.6 million of board funds at constant 1990 prices , and produced total tourism investment of £197.2 million at 1990 prices . |
| 15 | The talks , held on 23–30 October in Montreal , produced total agreement on the need for an international authority to administer civil aviation , or , if that was not possible , a regional operators ' conference . |
| 16 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 17 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 18 | His Albert gleamed rich gold against the fine cloth of his waistcoat , the fine watch lifted now from its hidden pocket to be scrutinized for the hundredth time , a sure sign that Thomas Grenfell was nervous . |
| 19 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 20 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |
| 21 | Anyway , my ole man 'ad pissed orf an' I was a bit short o' money . |
| 22 | They flung each other off and stared for an instant , each of them aware that he was known , each conscious that this recognition made many things plain . |
| 23 | It was found that some of the Scottish women made outstanding progress in French language as a result of this approach . |
| 24 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 25 | By an order dated 30 March 1992 Waite J. granted the local authority 's application under section 100(3) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be given to J. , an infant for whom the local authority shared parental responsibility pursuant to a care order made under the Act of 1989 , if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 26 | They accordingly obtained leave to invoke the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction and by their summons , directed to W. and to her aunt who shared parental responsibility for her , sought the court 's leave for such transfer and treatment without her consent . |
| 27 | Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes . |
| 28 | A society consisting of educated people , like a society of healthy people , made economic sense . |
| 29 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 30 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |