Example sentences of "[vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 2 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 3 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 4 | At least 300 Muslims were butchered in this way ; an equal number of Christians probably met the same fate . |
| 5 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | The confidentiality claim met the same fate as the other arguments . |
| 7 | A few other Labour MPs lent support , and met the same fate — notably Charles Trevelyan , last of the surviving ex-UDC Liberals in the Parliamentary Party . |
| 8 | Immediately proceeding to Renfrew , McGuinness once again met the same officers involved in the previous transfer . |
| 9 | This evening , returning by the lane , I met the same cat . |
| 10 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 11 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 12 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 13 | The assembly of the Khans met the same afternoon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man . |
| 16 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 17 | But away from the controlling mythology of the Western , his blood-dimmed vision lacked the same conviction . |
| 18 | The moment they arrived in Parson 's Green Penry rushed Leonora to the Range Rover , gave her a moment to fish out a gift-wrapped package from the bag containing her change of clothes , then stowed the latter in the car . |
| 19 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 20 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 21 | 274 a Court of Appeal consisting of Parker and Bingham L.JJ. considered the apparent conflict between Reg. v. Lawrence and Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 and applied the former decision . |
| 22 | It is time we applied the same reasoning to all . |
| 23 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 24 | Gloria never sunbathed as she thought it was ageing ; she applied the same effect out of a bottle . |
| 25 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 26 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |
| 27 | Cooper was trained as an art historian and he applied the same methodology and rigorous scholarship to his chosen artists as earlier generations had to the Old Masters . |
| 28 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 29 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 30 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |