Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | WHAT a moving picture ( right ) of Kerry Needham when she met the blond boy who was not her son . |
| 14 | ‘ Er , we met the other day . |
| 15 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 16 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 17 | My father met the poor creature , who fled at his approach . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He met the new left , was sometimes intrigued by it , but it was a different , and largely incomprehensible , world . |
| 21 | She flushed as she met the quizzical expression in Helen 's eyes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Coming back from the pillar box at the end of Charteris Road , Nurse Rose met the Private Wing sister . |
| 25 | I met the then Chairman of the AAA , Bill Ferguson , who asked me what the problem was all about . |
| 26 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 27 | " I know you 're a faggot and everything but I 'll tell you what the problem is : you just never met the right guy . |
| 28 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 29 | I never met the right woman . |
| 30 | She met the burning passion of his eyes , and time ceased . |