Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
2 | As a result of this progress , Charles divided Saxony into countships for civil rule , giving office not only to Frankish favourites and able governors , but also to Saxon chieftains . |
3 | She 'd heard Lucy at meetings , fielding worries , steering the conversation around the reefs and sandbanks of ego and uncertainty . |
4 | I have many happy memories of eating Frankfurters with lashings of mustard in Cologne . |
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6 | Row upon row they seemed to march , reminding Lucy of soldiers dressed in Prussian green uniforms . |
7 | April 1990 : Foreign Minister De Michelis visited Moscow for talks with his then Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze . |
8 | July : Andreotti visited Moscow for talks with Soviet President Gorbachev , mainly on bilateral trade , economic aid and German unification . |
9 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
10 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
11 | Japan 's Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe visited Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , on May 3-5 , concerning the longstanding territorial dispute between the two countries over the four most southerly islands in the Kurile chain which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945 . |
12 | IMF officials who visited Moscow for talks on Aug. 24-26 said , however , that Russian authorities , including Gerashchenko , were still in general agreement on the plans . |
13 | He dropped his pack , unbuckled his sword and propped it against the wall , then turned to rake Isabel with eyes as sharp as the wicked-looking blade behind him . |
14 | They would have torn Corbett to shreds if the grille had been raised . |
15 | Sangheli visited Bucharest for talks on Aug. 18-19 with Romanian Prime Minister Theodor Stolojan . |
16 | VICTORY TRIBUTE HAS JEAN IN TEARS |
17 | Following his visit to Saudi Arabia in February [ see p. 37266 ] , Saleh received visits in March from the Jordanian and Egyptian Prime Ministers , and on April 14 the North Yemeni Prime Minister , Abdel Aziz Abdel Ghani , visited Syria for talks with President Assad . |
18 | March 9 Baker visits Kuwait for talks with Crown Prince Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah . |
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20 | Shortly after the exercises , in early May , the Prime Minister of Singapore , Goh Chok Tong , visited Brunei for talks with the Sultan . |
21 | March 13-14 Baker visits Syria for talks with President Hafez al-Assad . |
22 | April 11-12 Baker visits Syria for talks with President Assad ; Syria maintains its opposition to a " regional conference " and presses for a full international conference with a UN presence . |
23 | May 8-9 Bessmertnykh visits Syria for talks with Assad at the start of a regional tour aimed at promoting Middle East peace efforts . |
24 | In October Gaston Sigur , a former Assistant US Secretary of State , visited Pyongyang for talks with Ho Dam and Kim Yong Nam . |
25 | They have also been able to drive down costs faster than the locals and so create new export possibilities , even back to Japan ; a feat that has eluded Detroit for decades . |
26 | A further step was taken towards the normalization of Vietnamese-US relations on Oct. 17 when Vietnam 's Foreign Minister , Nguyen Co Thach , visited Washington for talks with Gen. John Vessey , President Bush 's special envoy dealing with US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Indo-China . |
27 | During his visit to the USA in October Thach also visited Washington for talks with Gen. John Vessey , Bush 's special envoy on US servicemen missing in action ( MIA ) in Indo-China . |
28 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
29 | On Dec. 4 , a commission of the UN General Assembly adopted a US-sponsored resolution condemning Cuba for breaches of fundamental human rights , following on from a condemnation of the US blockade on the island [ see p. 39184 ] . |
30 | A Croatian delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister Zdenko Skrabalo visited Albania for talks on bilateral relations on Oct. 29-Nov. 1 . |