Example sentences of "meet [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 2 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 3 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 4 | Its primary concern is to find out what its customers needs and wants are so as to meet them with the highest level of customer satisfaction . |
| 5 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 6 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 7 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 8 | As well as receiving your letters , we like to meet you at the Royal Show , reader workshops and garden visits . |
| 9 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 10 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 11 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 12 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 13 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 14 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 15 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 16 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 17 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 18 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 19 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 20 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 21 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 22 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 24 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 25 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 26 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 27 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 28 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 29 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 30 | Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was . |