Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only six were noted away from the coast , and birds sometimes made prolonged stays in favoured coastal marshes , for example 35 days in 1965 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not even in Paradise Street had Rose met that phenomenon . |
| 6 | You met that man last night , Stephen . |
| 7 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
| 8 | How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The agreement covered industrial goods , processed agricultural goods and fish . |
| 13 | The group expected economic recovery in 1993 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Control injections with preimmune serum produced normal embryos . |
| 19 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I asked professional John Burns what the hazards were at Silloth . |
| 23 | They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery . |
| 24 | About this time the Geomagnetism Unit and the Global Seismology Unit were incorporated into NERC and became component parts of IGS . |
| 25 | The North Down athlete produced 47.54 metres to improve her own record by half-a-metre . |
| 26 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 29 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |
| 30 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |