Example sentences of "[vb past] meet [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 3 | The curtains failed to meet in the middle , revealing a section of the room beyond : a high , narrow bed flanked by a massive wardrobe in dark , stained oak ; a large crucifix with an unusually lifelike Christ hanging on the wall . |
| 4 | The committee then adjourned to meet at the Blenheim coffee house , New Bond Street , on 1 2 January 1 79 1 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 8 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 9 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | During the period of their reigns , the leading body of the king 's ministers , generally known as the cabinet , began to meet without the king being present . |
| 15 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 16 | Inevitably , our friendship overlapped the boundaries of work and we began to meet in the evenings . |
| 17 | We arranged to meet at the hotel the following morning . |
| 18 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 19 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 20 | Matron said she 'd find the others and they arranged to meet in the sick bay . |
| 21 | So we arranged to meet in the Brunel Bar in the Great Western Hotel at Paddington |
| 22 | They arranged to meet after the show , and Kattina took her to the houseboat which was her home . |
| 23 | Finding they had much in common , Coleman and Boohaker arranged to meet after the broadcast , and their subsequent friendship would doubtless have flourished anyway , even if the DIA had not pulled Coleman 's string in the autumn of 1989 and instructed him to cultivate the connection . |
| 24 | A number of members of the Society began meeting in the building now occupied by Mr Ross Raymond 's cycle business — then the Anchor Cafe — and the Meeting House in Portmore Street was opened in 1905 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the doctor continued to be a friend whom he enjoyed meeting in the evenings . |
| 26 | At school , I once had an argument with a boy from another form and we decided to meet in the break to settle it with our fists . |
| 27 | Elected party members may have increased their role in cabinet , but key decisions had to meet with the approval of the Emperor and his personal advisors at Court . |
| 28 | So we continued to meet on the sly . |
| 29 | Ernest and he had met on the golf links and both shared a love of collecting antiques . |
| 30 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |