Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 30 , Talabani met the UK Prime Minister John Major in London , on the first leg of a European tour , before holding talks on July 31 with French officials in Paris . |
| 2 | On Oct. 20 the Israeli government decided in favour of sending a delegation to the conference , and the other parties met the Oct. 23 deadline for the formal acceptance of invitations . |
| 3 | Well round near us they terrorized an eighty three year old lady er near us and er it was a , I met the man next door and his wife and they were the ones that got the police because he said they 'd got her furniture out on the pavement to with a doodah up there . |
| 4 | In 1988 he was elected to the National Assembly on behalf of the main opposition party at that time , the Party for Peace and Democracy , and in August of that year he made an unauthorized visit to North Korea where he reportedly met the North Korean President Kim Il-sing and other officials . |
| 5 | I met the Manchester Olympic bid committee some weeks ago when we discussed the proposed bid that Manchester wishes to make . |
| 6 | Some 110,000 immigrants met the Dec. 10 deadline for applications to regularize their status as residents of Spain . |
| 7 | Jane Deighton , the Law Society 's representative on the Delegation of UK lawyers which met the Chirwas last September and produced a detailed report on the legal and human rights situation in Malawi , said , |
| 8 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 9 | When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later , Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard . |
| 10 | Twenty four foreign students from the Darlington College of Technology , Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College and Polam Hall met the Darlington Rotary Club for an International Day lunch . |
| 11 | Carol Clark met the psychologist 6 years ago . |
| 12 | Lord Carrington travelled again to Belgrade on Nov. 22 , and met the UN special envoy to Yugoslavia , former US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance . |
| 13 | Acheson met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 24 March to discuss the proposals for Greece and Turkey and to answer questions on Korea . |
| 14 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 15 | The original condition appealed to buyers and it quickly doubled the £8,000-£10,000 pre-sale estimate . |
| 16 | Just 12 minutes had gone when Stuart Barlow pierced the Chelsea offside trap and chipped a perfect centre to Peter Beardsley . |
| 17 | In a letter dated Aug. 14 , the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein informed the Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that Iraq had agreed ( i ) " to adopt the 1975 agreement " ( i.e. the Algiers accord , which divided the Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iran and Iraq ] ; ( ii ) to withdraw as of Aug. 17 an estimated 100,000-250,000 Iraqi troops from Iranian territory officially totalling 2,600 sq km ; and ( iii ) to begin the immediate repatriation of an estimated 30,000 Iranian prisoners of war . |
| 18 | Hereford 's player of the season Alan Judge misjudged the visitors second goal . |
| 19 | Eliot , who lent the circle considerable prestige , found himself in congenial assorted , and in some cases strange , company . |
| 20 | The State passed the bill 96 votes to 3 . |
| 21 | We passed the Porthreath disused aerodrome . |
| 22 | It looked across the street at one of Woodborough 's dental practices , so that people passed the windows all day in various stages of apprehension and relief . |
| 23 | The secretary did as instructed and passed the test first time . |
| 24 | I am thankful and happy that there was a strange and foreign soul caring about the destiny of a political prisoner in East Germany … when we passed the border last night , I just cried . ’ |
| 25 | The year saw another milestone in the life of the Society in that , for the first time , the total assets passed the £3 billion mark . |
| 26 | The NPC session approved these reports with minimal alteration , and also passed the Draft Basic Law for what would be the Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region [ see pp. 37248 ; 37376 ] . |
| 27 | As he passed the bank next door he noticed that it too had a side passage , but this one was decked out with tiles and had painted walls . |
| 28 | En route to amassing that sum , the second highest of his career , he passed the £1 million mark in career earnings . |
| 29 | To visualize the positions of all efferent neurons that exit via the vii/viii nerve , we therefore applied the retrograde axonal tracer DiI to the exit point in r4 . |
| 30 | On Sept. 30-Oct. 1 it had come second in a rival poll for a National Congress , behind the National Independence Party ( which also boycotted the Oct. 28 elections ) . |