Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 2 | He also met the Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Minister , Frederick Chien Fu , during the visit . |
| 3 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 4 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 5 | When the Minister met the nine regional chairmen last week they regarded his statement that he sought to achieve no more funding for sport in this country — Wales received 8.5 per cent. , Scotland 15 per cent . |
| 6 | During his visit to Spain on Feb. 5-6 , Nastase met the Spanish Prime Minister , Felipe González Márquez , and signed agreements on bilateral co-operation in various fields with Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez . |
| 7 | Peter Brooke , the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , met the Irish Foreign Minister , Gerard Collins , on Oct. 25 , in pursuit of Brooke 's stalled initiative aimed at reviving talks on the political future of Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | But you just do your job ’ Severin Carrell recalls his visit to The Royal Scots in Ulster during which he met the young Scottish soldier who on Wednesday became the province 's 3,045th victim |
| 9 | President Ion Iliescu met the Soviet Moldavian president , Mircea Snegur , in Bucharest on June 20 , when the two agreed to prepare a political treaty on relations between the two Romanian-speaking Moldavian cultures . |
| 10 | Kaysone Phomvihane , Chairman of the Council of Ministers and LPRP general secretary , on Nov. 8 , 1989 , on the second day of a five-day visit to Japan , met the Japanese Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu . |
| 11 | President Roh Tae Woo made a three-day official visit to Japan on May 24-26 , during which he met the Japanese Prime Minister , Toshiki Kaifu , and Emperor Akihito . |
| 12 | On Oct. 25 Genscher met the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev , and on Oct. 26 President Gorbachev and the Soviet Foreign Minister , Boris Pankin . |
| 13 | Canosa met the Russian Foreign Minister , Andrei Kozyrev , and claimed on Dec. 27 that the Russian government intended to end Cuba 's lifeline of economic subsidies and to speed up the withdrawal of Russian troops as part of its new policy towards Cuba . |
| 14 | The Althorps first met the extrovert university-educated entrepreneur and his artist wife , Janet Munro Kerr at a dinner party in London . |
| 15 | It is believed that Mr Christie in Edinburgh last night met the four remaining directors on the board , the former chairman , Hamish Deans , and his son George , and Jim Johnston and the Edinburgh lawyer Sandy Moffat . |
| 16 | But Ciaran Fitzgerald and manager Noel Murphy met the four provincial coaches recently , and a closer rapport has been devised . |
| 17 | Much higher up , an eighty-foot bamboo ladder precariously met the small square opening to the chiselled vault . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 19 | After beginning a career in showbusiness , she went to entertain the troops in France , where she met the hard-bitten Chicagoan cornettist Jimmy McPartland . |
| 20 | The romantically handsome musician met the vivacious half-Russian Freda Bernstein , twenty years his junior , during the second World war . |
| 21 | Rafsanjani also met the Turkish Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut and concluded an agreement on the sale of Iranian oil and gas to Turkey . |
| 22 | His gaze met the intelligent green eyes of the Countess , eyes whose expression had all the warmth and silent wilfulness of her native land . |
| 23 | Möllemann , the first German minister to visit since June 1989 , requested information on 903 political prisoners when he met the Chinese Prime Minister , Li Peng , and said that trade and economic relations would be dependent on improvements in human rights . |
| 24 | Baker met the senior Mongolian party and government leaders : Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , the Chairman of the People 's Great Hural Presidium ; Sharavyn Gungaadorj , the Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosuren ; and the general secretary of the MPRP , Gombojavyn Ochirbat . |
| 25 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 26 | I met the Venerable Bimal Bhikku in the Friends ' Meeting House in Swindon , England , on a grey afternoon . |
| 27 | Prime Minister Sharif , who met the Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao during the Commonwealth summit in Harare , Zimbabwe , on Oct. 17 , said on Oct. 24 that the two sides had agreed to establish closer communication to avoid future crises . |
| 28 | They draped the starched white tablecloth over the big deal table . |
| 29 | In spite of the success of Fly-Buttons , George Birkitt was not yet a star — and quite possibly never would be : He lacked the necessary effortless dominance of character . |
| 30 | His tee shot lacked the necessary left-to-right spin and finished in one of the two fairway bunkers . |