Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
| 2 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the use of a new gauge led to a simple practical problem — the break of gauge where the broad met the narrow gauge with the consequent need for transshipment of goods and passengers . |
| 4 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 5 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 6 | He also met the Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Minister , Frederick Chien Fu , during the visit . |
| 7 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 8 | Never met the Aged . |
| 9 | Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes . |
| 10 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 11 | A delegation of five Conservative MPs yesterday met the Prime Minister and left Downing Street convinced they had made ‘ enormous progress ’ in persuading Mrs Thatcher to make a one-off ex-gratia payment to the victims . |
| 12 | After a lengthy discussion with the Foreign Minister , Mr Qian Qichen , they met the Prime Minister , Mr Li Peng , and the Communist Party leader , Mr Jiang Zemin . |
| 13 | Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else . |
| 14 | On Aug. 7 Greguric met the Prime Minister of the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) , Milan Panic , in Budapest , with the mediation of Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall . |
| 15 | After a weekend of uproar over reports that the Government intended to by-pass Parliament if defeated on the Maastricht bill and ratify the treaty anyway , Mr Hurd met the Prime Minister , John Major , the Leader in the Lords , John Wakeham , and the Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , at Downing Street yesterday morning . |
| 16 | WHAT a moving picture ( right ) of Kerry Needham when she met the blond boy who was not her son . |
| 17 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 18 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 19 | ‘ Er , we met the other day . |
| 20 | Now it may well be that er that may well be the the position in the south west in in respect of of of that particular criteria , but we would need to see , er how a location in that area , met the other eleven criteria . |
| 21 | My father met the poor creature , who fled at his approach . |
| 22 | His first destination was the headquarters of the ANC in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , where he met the exiled ANC executive committee , and other leaders of the Frontline states and Commonwealth representatives , and was greeted with the ceremony normally reserved for heads of state . |
| 23 | In Barcelona to attend the closing ceremony of the 1992 Olympic Games [ see p. 39073 ] , Prime Minister Filip Dimitrov met the exiled former King of Bulgaria , Simeon II , for a " relaxed private conversation " on Aug. 10 . |
| 24 | The most awkward joints were where the glazing bars met the curved members , any-way , after cutting about fifty joints in all , rebates for glass , slots for fielded panels , mouldings on corners and moulded glazing fillets the time had come for a complete dry assembly of the members . |
| 25 | He met the new left , was sometimes intrigued by it , but it was a different , and largely incomprehensible , world . |
| 26 | There would surely have been a strong argument for it to take its gauge from the parent line and worry about the break of gauge later , when it met the Cambrian — which of course would probably not have happened . |
| 27 | During his visit to Spain on Feb. 5-6 , Nastase met the Spanish Prime Minister , Felipe González Márquez , and signed agreements on bilateral co-operation in various fields with Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez . |
| 28 | She flushed as she met the quizzical expression in Helen 's eyes . |
| 29 | Franz-Joseph met the Imperial couple , accompanied by his wife the Empress Elizabeth , and there followed the usual round of banquets , receptions and country excursions . |
| 30 | The country 's six largest construction companies , which together spend between $14 million and $16 million a year on earthquake research , met the extra costs of including base isolation in the structures . |