Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at a meeting " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feminists had divined that , who once , when she rose to speak at a meeting , had hissed and cat-called , assuming her crowning glory to be the seductive and marketable product of an inhumanely tested bottle . |
| 2 | John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland . |
| 3 | President Mikhail Gorbachev , in his capacity as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , won backing at a meeting of the party central committee on Feb. 5-7 for a new draft party platform . |
| 4 | The Soyuz ( " Union " ) group of deputies , formed on Feb. 16 in the USSR Supreme Soviet with the aim of resisting " the destruction of the USSR " by separatist , nationalist and chauvinist forces ( and described by commentators as a largely conservative bloc seeking to counterbalance the radical Inter-Regional Group of deputies formed in July 1989 — see p. 36824 ) , had decided at a meeting on March 11 to nominate other candidates to preserve democratic principle . |
| 5 | The Group of Rio had suggested at a meeting with Foreign Ministers of the European Community ( EC ) member countries , held in the Irish capital , Dublin , on April 10 , that the EC should " institutionalize " the dialogue between the two blocs in order that commercial and technological co-operation could be encouraged with those countries forming the Latin American Association for Industrial Development ( ALADI ) which , in addition to the Rio countries , included Chile , Bolivia and Ecuador . |