Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later , he met the leaders of the Provisional IRA in Dublin and assured them that he would be delighted if he could cut it down to ten or eight years . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister , the Minister of State and I met the leaders of the four main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland on 11 February . |
| 3 | During his visit Kaifu met the leaders of the United Kingdom , France , West Germany and Poland , among others , and , as in later discussions with Jacques Delors , President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , impressed upon them his resolve to strengthen mutual trade relations . |
| 4 | Just before the review began , I met the members of the Art Department to discuss their anticipations . |
| 5 | About a month after the presentation of the final report , I met the members of the Art department to discuss their retrospective feelings about the review . |
| 6 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 7 | The RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley who met the families of the murdered officers said their deaths tragically illustrated the continuing sacrifice of the RUC in the service of the community . |
| 8 | They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands . |
| 9 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 10 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 11 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 12 | As this met the requirements of the hotel , serving customers would merely have been a needless waste of effort and resources which could be profitably siphoned off elsewhere . |
| 13 | We met the officials of the embassy at dinner that same evening . |
| 14 | UK court cases have recently raised the question of whether the principle of " retrospective liability " for past pollution that met the standards of the day will be widely applied . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he last met the chairmen of the regional electricity companies to discuss levels of disconnection for debt . |
| 16 | Patrick looked round and met the eyes of the Detective Sergeant . |
| 17 | By 1967 Ceauşescu had already staged several historical pageants at which he met the heroes of the Romanian past and of his own childhood games . |
| 18 | Professor North has suggested that the booming of the specialised plantation economy in the southern states was the key factor in the growth of a pattern of dynamic regional specialisation which allowed the north-eastern states to cradle an American industrial revolution by 1830.48 Up to then , however , it was primarily British manufactures which met the needs of the new republic . |
| 19 | He whispered the names of the Jaguthin , and his fists clenched with pain . |
| 20 | The heterostracans were associated with the hagfishes , chiefly because they lacked the specializations of the nasohypophysial opening and because they have a single branchial opening ( see below ) . |
| 21 | Rose whipped the sleeves of the shirt behind its back , folded them like double-jointed elbows , bent the shirt in two , and gave it a final press on top . |
| 22 | George whipped the trousers off the table and placed them on a hanger which he attached to a wooden creel . |
| 23 | As well as being mysterious the wind is powerful : it was by a mighty wind that God assuaged the waters of the Flood ( Gen. 8 : 1 ) , and by a wind that he caused the waters to recede before Israel at the Exodus ( Exod. 14:21 ) . |
| 24 | He emptied the dregs in the sink . |
| 25 | He emptied the coffers of the Phoenix Throne to build a new and mighty fleet capable of carrying the war to the northern seas and stopping the flow of reinforcements from Naggaroth . |
| 26 | While Otley and Nigel squared up to each other Elinor emptied the contents of the envelope onto the table : family snaps , letters , postcards belonging to the Chatwins , the coat of arms well in evidence and having the same circlet of tiny flowers as the monogram on Tumbleweed 's handkerchief . |
| 27 | The reactor 's contents spontaneously over-heated , expanded , blew valves on vents and emptied the contents of the cauldron into the air above the plant . |
| 28 | The children immediately seized on this , and with permission emptied the contents on the floor . |
| 29 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 30 | Some boys were bringing battered wooden buckets up from the well and the occasional housewife emptied the slops from the night jars out into the middle of the street . |