Example sentences of "[pron] meet [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions .
2 Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child .
3 She smiles as she meets the first customers of the day .
4 I have a huge group of people who meet the first Thursday in every month
5 ‘ When we met the last time .
6 Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August .
7 On arrival at the laboratory , they met a second volunteer and the research scientist .
8 But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered .
9 All SWIFTAIR items receive priority handling and separate sorting so that they meet the first available flight to the country of destination .
10 It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green .
11 I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference .
12 When the river is nearing low ebb , vast stretches of sand are laid bare , but channels of grey brown water of varying widths and depths continue to rush out between the sand formations until it meets the next tide coming in , twelve hours later .
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