Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revolving light carousels played on the compartment side of a Mk. 1 coach while wind and rain machines battered the corridor side from which David Boyce had to fall and , later Alfred Molina had to dive , to their ‘ deaths ’ . |
| 2 | Today I met the faith healer Ronnie Hazlehurst recommended . |
| 3 | Grand Metropolitan , which wants tenants to sign binding 20-year leases , agreed to send a representative from London to the town after Mr Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington , and two licensees met the company chairman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | However , President Gorbachev had requested $10,200 million when he met the EC Commissioner for Economic Affairs , Henning Christophersen , on Oct. 1 . |
| 9 | AT&T 's hostile bid for NCR turned a lot friendlier when Ma Bell met the computer company 's asking price of $110 a share , though none of the $7.5 billion will be in cash . |
| 10 | He also met the Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and Ahmed Jabril , the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP — GC ) . |
| 11 | It was through the French pub that he met the gallery owner , poet and denizen of Bohemia , Victor Musgrave . |
| 12 | In March Foreign Minister Iacovou met the US Secretary of State James Baker in Washington . |
| 13 | Mr Major met the US House of Representatives Speaker , Tom Foley , an Irish-American who has been mentioned as the possible special envoy . |
| 14 | On the first occasion Mr Reynolds met the stoma care nurse he was very quiet and seemed reluctant to discuss anything . |
| 15 | Mr Owen met the Home Secretary , Douglas Hurd , on 20 September and suggested that senior officials within the Department of Health , the social services and various community bodies should meet to discuss the problem . |
| 16 | On Tuesday , a group of MPs and peers met the Home Secretary on behalf of 17 people convicted in connection with the first two great IRA outrages on the British mainland during the present phase of the Irish troubles . |
| 17 | The case comes on the day senior magistrates met the Home Secretary to seek changes to the new Criminal Justice Act , under which penalties are linked to a person 's ability to pay . |
| 18 | It came as senior members of the magistrates association met the Home Secretary in London to seek changes in the new fines system . |
| 19 | Eva met the storm head on . |
| 20 | In July 1990 an Aruban delegation met the Netherlands Minister of Aruban and Antillean Affairs , Ernst Hirsh Ballin , for further talks about his proposals for a new constitutional relationship between the island and the Netherlands [ see also p. 37823 ] . |
| 21 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 22 | ‘ Mo ’ cars , ’ he pronounced , excitedly pointing a finger towards the foot of the hill where the lane met the village street in a T-junction . |
| 23 | While she was filming in the south of France , she met the writer Colette who insisted Audrey play Gigi on Broadway in America . |
| 24 | Near Hawthornden Castle is Ben Jonson 's Tree ; the newly appointed Poet Laureate , Ben Jonson walked from London to Hawthornden in 1618 and met the Poet Drummond under this particular tree . |
| 25 | Some of the workforce from Albion demonstrated outside Alhambra House , the Scottish Office premises in Glasgow , as the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , met the plant shop stewards and Labour MPs Donald Dewar and George Galloway . |
| 26 | I first met the Southport wizard 20 years ago in a remote Welsh outpost ; and within minutes we were immersed in a fascinating discussion about rises in sea level and the expanding Earth . |
| 27 | There he met the A/G radio operator who , on hearing the alarm , had returned to unlock the control room and telephone the emergency services . |
| 28 | A recent US Supreme Court case , Feist Publications Inc v Rural Telephone Service Company , has ruled that a database would only be able to gain copyright protection if it met the copyright standard of ‘ originality ’ in its mode of functioning ; copyright protection would not simply be extended to include items which took effort on the part of the owner to compile . |
| 29 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 30 | The Birmingham City coach met the Cambridge board yesterday . |