Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his convalescence he met the girl who was to become his wife at the local hunt ball and married her before returning to France . |
| 2 | Fulham , London , adds : ‘ If I ever met the person who did it , I 'd say : ‘ I hope you have a daughter and I hope someone does that to her one day . ’ ‘ . |
| 3 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 4 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 5 | Once she met the Queen she would not need fitzAlan 's protection . |
| 6 | Anyhow he went away and met the lady who became his wife in London , I believe , and they had a child . |
| 7 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 8 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 9 | Then when , a few months later , I met the man who was to become my husband , I was told in no uncertain terms that Helen — would n't you know it ? — did not approve . |
| 10 | And it was at the office … that she met the man who said … |
| 11 | Her next job was at Grampian Television in Aberdeen where she met the man who shaped her TV career . |
| 12 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 13 | We next met the day he arrived in Normandy . |
| 14 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 15 | As soon as Jaq met the Astropath he guessed that there was more awaiting . |
| 16 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 17 | When I met the mother she was extremely depressed verging on suicidal and was given by the workers at the clinic a new sari to try and cheer her up . |
| 18 | In 1974 he met the woman who was to become this third and last wife , Patricia Seaton . |
| 19 | In a few months , he discovered the sufferings of the world , found his calling as an artist , met the woman he was to marry , and became Werner Bischof , one of the finest photographers of his time . |
| 20 | The poem was not published until 1739 , when she met the expense herself . |
| 21 | They were a day out of Pesth on the way to Kinsai and Rostov was concerned that when he met the Kha-Khan he would be able to speak enough Yek to conduct a simple conversation . |
| 22 | In the vote on the NUM motion three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership : the NUM lacked the support it commanded last month at Blackpool from Nalgo , the local government officers ' union , since the latter is not affiliated to the party ; the pro-nuclear EETPU , absent from Blackpool since its expulsion from the TUC , cast its votes in favour of the leadership 's stance ; and Ucatt , the construction union , previously in favour of the 15-year deadline , has recently withdrawn its opposition to the policy review plan . |
| 23 | They transgressed fixity not only because they were without fixed abode , but also because they lacked the identity which , in a hierarchical society , was essentially conferred by one 's place in that society . |
| 24 | He was led from the neutral entrance hall by a quiet , equally neutral young man , who might have been a civil servant , into a room in which the walls carried friezes that depicted the perversions which the brothel traded in . |
| 25 | Years later when The Great Bastard pulled down the monasteries and emptied the convents I took Johanna into my own home . |
| 26 | When I emptied the pond there were Slugs , Leatherjackets and Worms in the bottom . |
| 27 | Discontented gentry unlocked the door which legal reformers had been unable to unlock for themselves . |
| 28 | Mounce unlocked the flat which had been converted into a bar . |
| 29 | She unlocked the car herself and handed me the keys without comment . |
| 30 | Then as the first shrill blast pierced the air he slammed the car into gear and glared at her . |