Example sentences of "[verb] met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 32 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 33 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |
| 34 | One of her closest allies and friends in the last years of her life was Jane Clifford , whom she had met during the Platt Hall venture and to whom she now offered a new job as historical adviser . |
| 35 | Others I had met at the Commando Training Centre in the Scottish Highlands . |
| 36 | Indeed , she had respected Angela Morgan for the straightforwardness with which she had tackled the issue when they had met at the lawyer 's office . |
| 37 | It was at least ten summers past that the Colonel and Miss Danziger had met at The Tamarisks and the Colonel , finding the guest a most informed companion , had asked her assistance in helping him pin-point locations where he was most likely to uncover particular fossils , and attract particular moths . |
| 38 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 39 | When they had met at the pub , and boasted of the ease of the despatch of the packet that Michael Holly would carry , he had never thought of a moment such as this . |
| 40 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 41 | But her natural good manners got the better of her and she found herself saying ‘ good evening ’ and reminding Penelope that they had met at the vicarage . |
| 42 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 43 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 44 | That evening , Anderson , at a subdued dinner with McKendrick and Chetwyn , argues with McKendrick about ethical problems before being approached by Hollar 's wife , whom he had met at the searching of the apartment ( scene eight ) . |
| 45 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 46 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 47 | In late September Thach had met with the US Secretary of State , James Baker , at the UN in New York [ see p. 37713 ] . |
| 48 | Prior to their expulsion the delegation had met with the families of imprisoned dissidents Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming [ see p. 38395 ] . |
| 49 | In Albania , Panic had met with the Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi , the first such visit by a Yugoslav leader to Tirana since 1948 . |
| 50 | On Aug. 11 President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had met with the Libyan leadership . |
| 51 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 52 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 53 | He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt . |
| 54 | But when their eyes had met across the packed ballroom , for a fleeting instant the crowd had ceased to exist . |
| 55 | The couple she had met as the Corduroys , Ken and Louise , were holding plates and looking round for somewhere to sit . |
| 56 | The first was that , as Hall had told the architects he had met before the competition , the Government were under no obligation to employ any of the successful competitors . |
| 57 | It was the day following Ari 's first test and Leila , Ari and Roirbak had met in the canteen . |
| 58 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 59 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 60 | Day and Tidbury had met in the toilet . |