Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merchant then met the Queen of Pleasures . |
| 2 | What he discovered was that the G cell turned when it met the axons of cells A1 and A2 , whereas C turned and followed two other pioneer cells , P1 and P2 . |
| 3 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 4 | Where ITV met the needs of regions viewed as ‘ minorities , within the nation , the fourth channel should be a national service , but serving social and cultural minorities : blacks , feminists , philosophers , gays , American football fanatics , and |
| 5 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 6 | Day-care provision also lacked the support of women trade unionists ; Mary MacArthur declared that women had no desire to keep working in factories while trying to nurse their children in crèches . |
| 7 | But if the conditions under which the keen golfer had to play his 18 holes lacked the refinement of Gleneagles or the Old Course at St Andrews there were compensations . |
| 8 | Managed press leaks about a pending increase in telephone charges doubled the price of shares in NTT , the Tokyo market 's leading company . |
| 9 | With lean production , they say , Japanese manufacturers more of less doubled the number of models they offered between 1982 and the '90s , at the same time replacing them every four years . |
| 10 | The franchise for the 1929 election nearly doubled the number of women voters ; Labour again captured four seats with hugely increased majorities . |
| 11 | As the level of violence in Natal between supporters of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Inkatha Freedom Party escalated , State President F. W. de Klerk on Oct. 29 doubled the number of troops deployed in the province . |
| 12 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 13 | It doubled the number of passengers it carries to 1.65m . |
| 14 | Northern clergy , especially , endured the billeting of troops : the prior of Tynemouth in 1341 claimed to be utterly impoverished ‘ by the coming thither of magnates and others making stay here ’ . |
| 15 | During the engagement A.A. bursts were exploding all round me , my port plane received a near miss which made a large hole and spattered the aircraft with splinters , which injured my left elbow . ’ |
| 16 | As he moved from his desk he slipped and spattered the page with blots . |
| 17 | He germinated the spores in dishes containing agar jelly , then transferred the spores to Kilner jars which contained rye grains . |
| 18 | Thus the tension between town and country , which divided the liberalism of towns like Bilbao and San Sebastian from the fierce catholic conservatism of Carlism in the countryside , was less evident in Alava and Navarre . |
| 19 | To be sure they were not removing the very effect they were looking for , the researchers divided the children into groups on the basis of their lead levels . |
| 20 | He divided the carpet into sections and painstakingly covered it with strips of Sellotape . |
| 21 | Just as enclosures divided the countryside with hedges , so toll gates divided its roads and a communal institution was replaced by a cash-based one . |
| 22 | ( Also , as we shall see in chapter eight , Kant divided the world of metaphysics from the world of the senses and created havoc for theology and philosophy generally . ) |
| 23 | He divided the number of crimes by the number of minutes in an hour to show how many crimes were committed in a certain time . |
| 24 | He passed the Society of Apothecaries ' qualifying examination in 1823 , apparently while under age , and then gained the MRCS . |
| 25 | He passed the roll of notes beneath the table . |
| 26 | It was surely — the words came in the tone of voice her mother would have used — ‘ most unsuitable ’ , and it seemed especially so when the bus passed the block of flats where she and her mother had lived . |
| 27 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 28 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 29 | He stayed in the shadows as he passed the House of Mirrors with its queue stretching outside , everyone jostling for position . |
| 30 | The airliner passed the information to controllers at West Drayton and an RAF rescue Wessex helicopter was sent to Snowdon . |