Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pollution and weathering battered the surface of the glass . |
| 2 | Holden battered the free-kick against the wall and after a scramble the ball fell to Henry , who struck a low shot from more than 30 yards past Lukic . |
| 3 | Before the collapse of the Soviet Union , the central Soviet budget met the cost of the decontamination , medical treatment and checkups of the several hundred thousand victims and liquidators , as well as the compensation payments to those still living in contaminated areas . |
| 4 | I met the rest of the family , had a fine meal and then at the end Gennaro , who is the head of the whole household , gave me your letter ! |
| 5 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 6 | Without a second thought the 30-year-old former England centre forward met the ball on the full , unleashing a powerful left-foot drive . |
| 7 | Both the proposals and the practice met the spirit of the age : new cities planned to be environmentally attractive , socially acceptable and economically viable gained support from both public opinion and commercial interests . |
| 8 | In February 1983 I again met the Head of the Art Department . |
| 9 | Mr. Adley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he last met the chairman of the Wales tourist board ; and what was discussed . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he last met the chairman of the Northern regional health authority to discuss the financial budget of East Cumbria district health authority . |
| 11 | To ask the Attorney-General when he last met the chairman of the Law Commission to discuss the Commission 's programme for law reform . |
| 12 | Two days after seeing my surgeon and exactly a week before going into hospital , aided by my wife , I crawled up to London and met the hero of the book . |
| 13 | CHRISTINE Elliott enjoyed every minute working for her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award — and when she met the Duke at the presentation ceremony she told him so . |
| 14 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 15 | During the campaign , we met the Governor of the Bank of England , three times ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer , twice ; the Foreign Secretary ; and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury , twice . |
| 16 | On Saturday 11th November five members of the Society met the owner of the Glenburrell bridge , Major Minton Beddoes , who kindly spent the whole afternoon with us discussing , not only the bridge itself , but various aspects of the line such as access to it and possible future developments . |
| 17 | After several months of trials with human gonadotrophin and conceptions which were made in vitro — the mother of course never met the donor of the sperm which fertilized her ovum — a conception was selected and detailed predictions made — ’ |
| 18 | On Jan. 10 , 1989 , Bossano met the mayor of the Spanish border town of La Línea to discuss the joint development of the area which could include Spanish use of the port at Gibraltar ( although not of the airport ) . |
| 19 | Major-General Holomisa met the president of the ANC in London recently . |
| 20 | President Mitterrand of France and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany on Dec. 15 , 1989 , met the President of the Swiss Bundesrat , Jean-Pascal Delamuraz , in Basel to mark 25 years of co-operation in the Upper Rhine , and signed a tripartite agreement on further supranational co-operation in the area . |
| 21 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
| 22 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 23 | Kate draped the shawl on the counter . |
| 24 | She would have hated him to see how her hands shook as she spooned the coffee into the mugs , overdid the sugar and had to start again . |
| 25 | The Restoration lacked the spontaneity of the Elizabethan age . |
| 26 | Orient , like Rovers promoted from the Fourth Division last May , made few telling incursions into the penalty area where they lacked the pace of the home team 's Malkin and Morrissey , though their approach work was neat enough . |
| 27 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 28 | The corresponding German guns — the 30.5cm and the large 42cm — lacked the mobility of the Austrian pieces , which were those most frequently used during the war of movement in the early months of the conflict . |
| 29 | The competition lacked the prestige of the League Championship , and its future looked uncertain as one club after another abandoned it by successfully applying to enter the Football League — Bristol City in 1901 , Chelsea in 1905 , Fulham in 1907 and Tottenham in 1908 . |
| 30 | In many respects a superb centre , even if it was poorly served by public transport and lacked the atmosphere of the Casa de Campo , the new complex would have been too large and expensive for a leaner fair with a thinner list of participating galleries . |