Example sentences of "met [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 2 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 3 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 4 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 5 | We sometimes met her in the street on her way from classes , and she always stopped to talk to us . |
| 6 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 7 | Met him on the way to Kingston . |
| 8 | They first met him on the platform at Liverpool Street station during one of their regular Friday shuttles between Norfolk and London . |
| 9 | Garvey , anxious to keep their line of work secret , met him at the foot of the ladder with whispered protests and badly disguised anger . |
| 10 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 11 | Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 12 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 13 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
| 14 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
| 15 | ( His blood-pressure must have risen dangerously if he ever met anyone of the name of Hambly who also drank sherry ) . |
| 16 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |
| 17 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 18 | these met us Dad and Mike met us in the pub after . |
| 19 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |