Example sentences of "meet him [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 3 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 4 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 8 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 9 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was . |
| 13 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 15 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 16 | Has she met him in the Three Pigeons ? |
| 17 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 18 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 19 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 20 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 21 | ‘ Hopefully we 'll meet him in the Premier League next season . ’ |
| 22 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 23 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 24 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 25 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 26 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 27 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 28 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 29 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 30 | His mother met him at the back door . |