Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 3 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | The assembly of the Khans met the same afternoon . |
| 5 | At least 300 Muslims were butchered in this way ; an equal number of Christians probably met the same fate . |
| 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 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man . |
| 11 | This evening , returning by the lane , I met the same cat . |
| 12 | Immediately proceeding to Renfrew , McGuinness once again met the same officers involved in the previous transfer . |
| 13 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 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 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 16 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 17 | But away from the controlling mythology of the Western , his blood-dimmed vision lacked the same conviction . |
| 18 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 19 | This combination of specimens could be recognized either by grouping them into a single genus or into a tribe , and on present evidence I favour the latter alternative and suggest the Afropithecini as a suitable name . |
| 20 | Such a construction fits the few facts given in the early biographical sources and such facts as have emerged from the recently published documentary material in a way that the traditional account does not . |
| 21 | The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way . |
| 22 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 23 | The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk . |
| 24 | The two projects were seen to have differing conditions of implementation and are therefore unlikely to be synchronised in a ‘ revolutionary moment ’ , but nonetheless they can be seen as mutually supportive : struggles for democratic forms within enterprises may help to build support for broader democratic planning , while a sympathetic government pursuing the latter project could also greatly expand the opportunities for enterprise democracy by means of legal changes and financing . |
| 25 | Sheffield Wednesday are among those pursuing the former QPR player-manager . |
| 26 | Despite abandoning a planned £34m ( $66m ) European airline venture with Belgium 's carrier , Sabena , and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , British Airways still wants an alliance with the troubled Sabena , but faces competition from other airlines pursuing the same goal . |
| 27 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 28 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 29 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 30 | There is nothing more ‘ automatic ’ than the perfect housewife , mechanically pursuing the same routine day in and day out . |