Example sentences of "meet [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 2 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 3 | Agnes pushed Jessie towards the basin , hissing , ‘ Stay there ! ’ then hurried out of the room to meet her mother in the corridor , the while calling , ‘ I 'm coming . |
| 4 | ‘ To meet her couturier at the Hilton . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that the museums in the former USSR were unable to meet their share of the costs after August 1991 , the exhibition has gone ahead with the support of the Kunsthaus in Zurich , in particular its director Felix Baumann , and with most of the financial risk underwritten by George Ortiz himself . |
| 6 | The next chapter will examine recent issues that are engaging bureau workers in their search to meet their commitment to the community . |
| 7 | The railway companies built stations to accommodate passengers who never materialized , to flatter a vanity which was shortly to meet its fall in the face of both economic recession and the rise of alternative modes of transportation . |
| 8 | But the commune also served a major coercive function since the majority in each village stood to lose should an individual either fail to meet his share of the payments due or take to flight . |
| 9 | Her confidence was coming back now , so that she felt able to meet his gaze across the width of the small table . |
| 10 | These great leviathans of the air eventually met their demise with the development of British high flying aircraft armed with guns firing incendiary bullets . |
| 11 | That orb of bone , holed and yellowing , was what killed all those little creatures who met their death in the mud on the far side of the creek . |
| 12 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 13 | Lady Thatcher often accused her male colleagues of lacking guts … today she met her match in the Lady from Cheltenham . |
| 14 | I shall wish to see records of all dealings since the last formal audit , to ascertain the group 's cash position and to form an opinion of its prospects of meeting its debt to the bank within reasonable time . |
| 15 | Tracey meets her manager in the hall . |
| 16 | Remembering how General Steiner had met his end in the Gestapo cellars at Prinz Albrechtstrasse , it seemed likely to Schellenberg that Himmler might have other reasons . |
| 17 | The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute . |
| 18 | Therefore we believe that during the plan period , those sites are likely to come forward and make a improved contribution to meeting our share of the Greater York employment needs . |
| 19 | MEET OUR BRIDE OF THE YEAR |
| 20 | As our seventy fifth birthday approaches , Cadbury hopes to stage more events and promotions to help us meet our seventy five million t pound target and meet our commitment to the world 's children . |
| 21 | He had grown close to Gerry Gomez since the day he had asked if he could meet his sister at the airport , and they now worked together admirably . |
| 22 | Roscoe Boy , who won on his return a fortnight ago , has had a recurrence of foot problems and will not meet his engagement in the Puckeridge Ladies race . |
| 23 | Firstly , make the Friday night meal a cold one , because your guest may arrive late or you may have to go and meet your guest at the bus or railway station . |
| 24 | He professes to be an atheist but met his wife at the Youth Fellowship at a church in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | I met his wife in the village shop and she was very concerned about him . ’ |
| 26 | Beales 's story was that he met his friend in the pub just after 1 p.m . |
| 27 | No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad . |
| 28 | Mussolini met his death at the hands of the Italian partisans , on 28th . |
| 29 | Since Tranter 's description , the renovator has removed any possibility of seeing , for instance , a gaunt and wild building like the House of Shaws in Kidnapped , where David Balfour almost met his death at the hands of his scheming uncle . |
| 30 | Whether or not he believed Maureen 's claim that her father met his death at the hands of political opponents , Brian Berg was dutifully pursuing that line . |