Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met the two brothers , Ernie and Sidney , last night . ’ |
| 2 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 3 | Jeremy Vole met the two hedgehogs as they joined the crowd . |
| 4 | Mr Hamilton met the three widows — Mrs Lennox , Mrs Elizabeth Weeks and Mrs Lyn Hicks — at the MoD in January when he indicated a compromise could be reached . |
| 5 | To control the damage , the Minister of State in the President 's Office , John Tembo , met the seven bishops . |
| 6 | Even though all authorities met the 31 December deadline , good intentions on effective hospital discharges must still be proved . |
| 7 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 8 | Nor , since he lacked the four generations of noble blood required for a commission in the French navy , was he offered the command of a French ship . |
| 9 | On Sunday , July 12 , 1987 , the gang went to the Deposit Centre in Brompton Road , central London , and emptied the 121 boxes which contained jewellery , gold , cash and cocaine . |
| 10 | I unlocked the three clasps , took out the faded petals of a flower wrapped in oiled leather , as well as all the letters and documents from that fateful summer of 1520 . |
| 11 | Teacher placement in industry have formed the backbone of the UBI activities since the project was set up in 1977 , but formal schemes date back to the early 1960s , with LEAs such as Leicestershire acting as pioneers in the field when the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) first piloted the three week Introduction to Industry Scheme for teachers . |
| 12 | By mid-1991 Denmark was nearing agreement with Sweden on a long-standing plan to bridge the Öresund straits which divided the two countries [ see p. 38402 ] . |
| 13 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 14 | An overgrown hedge divided the two properties . |
| 15 | On Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia , Mehmed II built another medrese beside the Uc Serefeli medrese and divided the 100 akce salary Ali Tusi had received equally between the muderrises of the old and new medreses . |
| 16 | This was being built under the main road that divided the three nurses ' homes and the medical-school library from the hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |
| 18 | His mother passed the two sheets of paper , typed in the smudged style characteristic of the Metropolitan Police , to her husband with a frown . |
| 19 | In late June 1991 the legislature passed the 1991-92 budget for the financial year beginning on July 1 . |
| 20 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 21 | O'Brien , 26 , passed the 8,847 points set by Thompson at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles . |
| 22 | Significantly , the same Parliament which passed the 1947 Agriculture Act also brought into being the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act , thus creating the planning system which , to this day , regulates all aspects of British life except agriculture and forestry , which remain exempt . |
| 23 | Then showing excellent jumping form with Major Wager , Skelton shared the Six Bar competition with Germany 's Franke Sloothaak , on San Patrignano Dorina . |
| 24 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 25 | We shared the one church , but the mission side of worship was western — the two ways continuing independent , like Roman and Celt in early British Christianity . |
| 26 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 27 | He stuffed the two pieces into Vasili 's anorak pocket . |
| 28 | The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California . |
| 29 | Spence , who made the 1992 Dunhill Cup team for England , is obviously a rising star . |
| 30 | Clapton is a graceful , authoritative performer , even sitting down , and his ten acoustic country-blues tunes made the 6,000 seat Royal Albert Hall seem like a club . |