Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 2 | On the same afternoon I met with the rail unions and ( loyally supported by Peter Parker ) put the position to them . |
| 3 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 4 | Erm and yeah two birds I met in Portugal and , and then Kathy just like stormed out . |
| 5 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 6 | The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening . |
| 7 | It played at , among other places , the newly formed Leicester Square Jazz Club which met in premises belonging to the NSPCC over the Café de l'Europe . |
| 8 | These questions , among others , exercised a group of educationists who met at a seminar on accountability sponsored by the SSRC and held at Cambridge ( England ) in 1977 . |
| 9 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
| 10 | ‘ Ceauŝescu was absolutely furious about the opposition we met in trying to recover the bodies . |
| 11 | Rob Phone , Mr and Mrs National Holidays , and the journalist they met on the train have all gone their separate ways now , but perhaps a little enriched , a little relaxed , by a modicum of light , meaningless conversation . |
| 12 | On Friday they met in a mosque with the men from Zliten , demanded 6000 dinars ( £11,800 at the then official exchange rate , £6500 at the going rate in the free market ) , and received assurances of payment . |
| 13 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 14 | Girouard mentions that the Duke of Portland sacked any housemaid he met with in the corridors , and that a certain Lord M in Wiltshire never spoke to a servant unless to give an order . |
| 15 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 16 | From 1885 there was also a flourishing Band of Hope which met in the Tabernacle with an average attendance of 99 by the year 1889 . |
| 17 | Balliol 's letters patent acknowledging the English king 's overlordship of Scotland were discussed at an ill-attended parliament which met at York in December 1332 . |
| 18 | At the parliament which met in November 1279 Pecham was forced to withdraw not only the order to display and expound Magna Carta but also the excommunication against royal officers who ignored writs of caption or seized or wasted temporalities and against any of the suitors of illegitimate prohibitions . |
| 19 | " The 1872–3 strike would be a further example of a determined effort by the Edinburgh branch which met with tough employer resistance . |
| 20 | But it reminded me , of this bloke I met in a port once . |
| 21 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
| 22 | Being a mother has a certain status after all , it makes you a grown-up person , something you ca n't feel , if , like a girl I met in Barnsley , you leave school , which you hated anyway , and did badly at , become unemployed , and there 's no job except perhaps a government scheme . |
| 23 | What a racket did I keep and to say truth I would I had been more chary than I was … for a faithless wretch I met with : well , he has a deal to answer for . |
| 24 | Mr Vanner , not being a member of the committee which met on Monday night , was not able to speak on his motion , but Tory colleague Doug Pallett was the only councillor to support it . |
| 25 | A communiqué was released on the last day of the sixth plenary session of the 13th Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) central committee which met on March 9-12 . |
| 26 | The need to enlist French help , with the awareness that it would come on French terms , was agreed by the council which met at Stirling on 2 November 1547 . |
| 27 | Finance Ministers from the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) developing countries who met in Washington on April 28 expressed support for the World Bank 's reaffirmation of its commitment to make poverty reduction " a priority objective " in its lending operations . |
| 28 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 29 | Taking it back to the post office herself and explaining the circumstances she met with every kind of difficulty about the redirection and was compelled to pay out of her own pocket to have it seen to . |
| 30 | When William arrived in England he met with pockets of resistance in various parts of the country from Tory groups . |