Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They all expected each member of the staff to express — discreetly — particular and intense interest in their child . |
| 16 | 100 lb plus bream haul expected each day . |
| 17 | He opined that Band Aid was diabolical and that Geldof was a ‘ nauseating character ’ . |
| 18 | To underline the point , he opined that interrogator Fells would be a very different chap if deprived of his car , telephone and bow tie . |
| 19 | Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations . |
| 20 | Through the country 's long years of repression , artists , intellectuals and students met each other in the cafes , to swap ideas and information and to give each other solidarity . |
| 21 | In Montparnasse artists and art students met each other in the cafés and at the life class and in the little restaurants . |
| 22 | The Pims dashed around all parts of the aquarium having brief but energetic skirmishes when they met each other , but no actual physical damage was suffered from the skirmishes . |
| 23 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 24 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 25 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |
| 26 | Zlorf and Ymor met each other 's gaze . |
| 27 | In other words , you met each other a lot , and w we know you had the kind of situations that |
| 28 | THE recently expanded sales force met each other for the first time in September at their autumn sales meeting . |
| 29 | But if they met each other , Lewis … ? |
| 30 | We met each other at the same art gallery in Milford Haven and the vibe was just right . ’ |