Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming back from the pillar box at the end of Charteris Road , Nurse Rose met the Private Wing sister . |
| 2 | To cut a long story short — and I 'd be glad to give the details to anyone who wants — it was in Moers that our force met the Communist Party leadership of the Ruhr . |
| 3 | The authors show that unqualified mature students in their study had some educational or professional qualification and just over half ( 51% ) met the General Entrance Requirement of their particular university . |
| 4 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 5 | Talbot Square now became a focal point on the tramway system , where the new town routes met the busy Promenade track , newly relaid and extended to the Gynn . |
| 6 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 7 | Britain angered Iran when Mr Rushdie met the Foreign Office minister , Douglas Hogg , on 4 February , his first public meeting with a British Government minister in four years . |
| 8 | It was pointed out that he met the Foreign Office Minister , Douglas Hogg , earlier this month . |
| 9 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 10 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 11 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 12 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 13 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 14 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 15 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 16 | The sense of political focus that empowered the early Screen project has been dissipated . |
| 17 | He unlocked the small side door and stepped into the darkness . |
| 18 | An important measure to encourage this trend was taken in October , when Iran 's central bank ( Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islam Iran ) doubled the foreign exchange quota available to all private-sector enterprises dealing with the public sector and set a new special exchange rate of $1.00=1,000 rials ( a fall from $1.00=1,250 rials ) . |
| 19 | The Maoist Sendero Luminoso guerrilla group sabotaged the national electricity grid on April 6 . |
| 20 | He flung the damp tea towel on to the table . |
| 21 | In 1885 , Parliament passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act . |
| 22 | California , which was exempt from the federal ruling that no state could adopt emission standards for new vehicles more stringent than the federal ones , passed the Pure Air Act of 1968 , which contained explicit emission standards for hydrocarbons , carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen for post-1970 new vehicles . |
| 23 | Late one afternoon on my way to the kennels with the dogs ' bowls I passed the lighted kitchen window and stopped because I heard his voice . |
| 24 | ‘ They all passed the special training course at Kemijärvi , ’ Galvone continued . |
| 25 | They 're all covered with smoke and grime left over from before they passed the Clean Air Bill , and the only place that might once have looked good is the Methodist Chapel at Southwark that 's been taken over by Fundamentalists . |
| 26 | Following an announcement by the Prime Minister , Sir Aneerood Jugnauth , on Oct. 22 that Mauritius would break ties with the British crown [ see p. 38520 ] , the Legislative Assembly on Dec. 10 passed the Constitutional Amendment Bill , under which Mauritius , a constitutional monarchy since its independence in 1968 , would become a republic within the Commonwealth on March 12 , 1992 . |
| 27 | As they passed the silent Salvation Inn , Yanto glanced to the left at the Murchison house . |
| 28 | At the southern end of the valley , the band passed the revered Medicine Tree , an ancient yellow pine in which a mountain sheep horn was embedded eight feet above the ground , considered a place of sanctuary and Wyakin powers . |
| 29 | The process started in 1947 continued in 19485 ; in March the American government passed the Foreign Assistance Act , to enable the ‘ Marshall Aid ’ proposals to be put into effect , and on 17th . |
| 30 | Even with the bustle of oil activity , Scapa was a lonely place with an aura of sadness , forever haunted by its sad history of scuttled and torpedoed ships ; each time I passed the Royal Oak buoy on our way into Scapa Pier I was reminded of this history . |