Example sentences of "[noun] i 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 | But it reminded me , of this bloke I met in a port once . |
| 7 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I thought Italy astoundingly beautiful and liked the Italians I met in Varenna , a quiet , peaceful village just up the road from the Cipressi . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's a teacher I met on teaching practice . |
| 12 | The CFI at Nelson , Jenny Frame ( the only lady aero club CFI I met during my trip , though the proportion of female instructors and pilots seems much higher in New Zealand than it is in the UK ) told me that although this state of affairs was unusual , a great deal of their flying did normally comprise scenic flights for tourists . |
| 13 | But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions . |
| 14 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 15 | During my time at the DHSS I met over the table with three Chief Secretaries and , I have to admit , had battles with them all . |
| 16 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 17 | I will not forget the many people I met in the course of developing the many images I now have of Slumptown Comprehensive . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's a man I met during the course of my work . ’ |
| 19 | One man I met on holiday even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 20 | One man I met on holiday in Greece even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 21 | The nice Tory ladies are all pessimistic , which makes me pessimistic — the nice Tory ladies I met in '87 all thought they 'd lost , too . |
| 22 | A gang of girls I met in Coventry hanging around with some boys who , like them , were unemployed , said that when they were younger they did a bit of vandalising : " When I got pissed I smashed the windows of posh houses , " said one of them . |
| 23 | I did it once with a Kraut I met on Piccadilly Underground . |
| 24 | The fellow I met at Heathrow never spoke . |
| 25 | I know I 'm in trouble when the beautiful Philippino nurse I met in Dr McKenzie 's consulting room takes my hand and says , ‘ Hold tight and scream if you want . ’ |
| 26 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 27 | The women I met on holiday were unanimous . |
| 28 | She had a fairly distinctive voice — certainly none of the women I met around the office today . |
| 29 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 30 | An unemployed couple I met in Coventry can not visit their parents on the other side of town — at £2.88 the cost is prohibitive . |