Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 32 | All met in the we met the school . |
| 33 | The traffic was thick through the outskirts of Ramsgate and Jim had still not made it when the traffic lights at the crossing where the Sandwich road met the London road showed up ahead . |
| 34 | Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday . |
| 35 | President Daniel Ortega met the teachers but said there just was not enough money to pay them more . |
| 36 | She comfortably made her semi-final , where she met the Canadian , Nathalie Gosselin . |
| 37 | It was Friday at Mission Dolores , when the probation officers came to met the boys on parole and Father Boyle paid the many youngsters whom he had working the church , the school and charity programmes in the parish . |
| 38 | We last met the Secretary of State in May 1991 . |
| 39 | A few other media met the conditions of technology , but simply failed to catch on with a mass audience . |
| 40 | Beyond that , the ITA was influenced by the existing configuration of franchise holders , by new applicants ' promises and broadcasting talent , by their performance at interview and the extent to which they met the conditions of regionalism and financial soundness . |
| 41 | The French government announced that it would take the strongest measures to ensure that Aoun met the conditions attached to his asylum , which included refraining from making public statements on political issues . |
| 42 | We met the students on Sunday — had dinner with them in the Sichuan restaurant , as I said , and they turned out to be very pleasant , one girl ( whose blonde hair must strike the Chinese with amazement ) and three men , sporting their long hair in defiance of the Chinese preference for short back-and-sides . |
| 43 | If she met the girl Marie on the way back there would be even more for her to tell Mademoiselle Rabier ! |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |
| 46 | ‘ Of course we believe you when you say you never met the girl . |
| 47 | Actually , it could n't have been too bad , as we met the girl , and she is determined to stay in China to the end of the contract , in spite of what happened . |
| 48 | Elizabeth Groves , as a young girl , had been befriended by the Queen who met the cost of her education at the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 49 | When the county council were given permission to station the mobile library on the car park , they met the cost of re-surfacing . |
| 50 | Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , the central Soviet budget met the cost of the decontamination , medical treatment and checkups of the several hundred thousand victims and liquidators , as well as the compensation payments to those still living in contaminated areas . |
| 51 | Bettina McNulty , who first met the Ashleys on a business assignment for American House and Garden in the late Seventies , became a good friend , but never took advantage of this by writing anything about Laura 's personal life , which she was well positioned to do . |
| 52 | It was another few days before Endill met the scientist , whose name was Blunset , for the third time . |
| 53 | David and Linda Leeder , of Wayside , Shalford , near Braintree met the archdeacon of Colchester , the Very Reverend Ernest Stroud in a bid to get the church to change its mind over the refusal . |
| 54 | North America became the first continent to have a rail line from coast to coast when the Central Pacific met the Union Pacific in May 1869 . |
| 55 | 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 . ’ ‘ . |
| 56 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 57 | THE ROAD TO ELLING CHANGED CHARACTER dramatically at the place where it met the river and altered its course to follow that of the river . |
| 58 | ‘ It was most encouraging to see the manner in which the Department of Trade and Industry worked to ensure that the basis for final settlement met the EC requirement fairly , ’ said the company 's finance director , Richard Lapthorne . |
| 59 | However , President Gorbachev had requested $10,200 million when he met the EC Commissioner for Economic Affairs , Henning Christophersen , on Oct. 1 . |
| 60 | The ITA was simultaneously having to work out the details of its own role ; formulate rules that met the legislation 's requirements for quality , balance and so on , some of which — about imported American programmes , say — would affect the companies ' finances ; and ensure both that there was proper competition for the franchises , yet that the operation did not collapse through mismanagement or financial miscalculation . |