Example sentences of "[verb] met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first essential for a disciple is that he ( or she ) has met with the Lord and has chosen to follow Him . |
| 2 | The action , however , has met with the disapproval of Wirral planning authority , which views the wire as visually intrusive in the park environment . |
| 3 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 4 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 5 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 6 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 7 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 8 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 9 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly I was back in the presence of the unpredictable figure I 'd met in the library at Easterness that first night , and as uncertain now as then . |
| 11 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 12 | Aware that his intended , ‘ I , sir ? ’ would have met with the invariable bark , ‘ Yes , you , sir , ’ Thiercelin contented himself with looking staggered , which he was . |
| 13 | She halfexpected to find Griselda 's body , guessing that it might have met with the same fate as Melusina . |
| 14 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 15 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 16 | I knew we should 'ave met in the pub , ’ he said lightly . |
| 17 | And she was supposed to be a witch right enough and the men from all round about here er had a meeting about it and they I think met at the barn of Dale . |
| 18 | Ernest and he had met on the golf links and both shared a love of collecting antiques . |
| 19 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 20 | On the return journey from Fairbanks to Edmonton I enjoyed a two-day stopover in Whitehorse where the manager of the new cinema , whom I had met on the way north , looked me up . |
| 21 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ I read in the paper the other day that two people had met on the steps of St Paul 's Cathedral after fifty years or something . |
| 23 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 24 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 25 | Now there was longing and bitterness in his voice and she caught a glimpse of the man she had met on the boat . |
| 26 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 27 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 28 | Robert recognized him now : it was the restaurant-owner he had met on the day he had brought home Hasan — Mr Khan . |
| 29 | Her own son , now an engineer with an oil company in the States , had back-packed round Europe while at university and she remembered his homecoming , his hair bleached by the sun , seemingly taller and more mature , full of tales of the people he had met along the way . |
| 30 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |