Example sentences of "[vb past] meet [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 2 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 3 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 4 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 5 | Each of the six weighed half a kilo so I was glad John came to meet me on arrival . |
| 6 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
| 7 | He did n't want to be invited to the party but it would have been nice to have friends like that who came to meet you from Vienna and were delighted to see you . |
| 8 | We taxied towards the buildings and a little party of figures came to meet us as if they were welcoming a foreign diplomat . |
| 9 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 10 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 11 | I 'd met him in Nigeria . |
| 12 | I told Caroline I 'd met him by chance . |
| 13 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 14 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 15 | He 'd met her at work , which was about the only place where he did meet people these days . |
| 16 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 17 | And I explained that er I 'd met her in town , which I did , did n't I ? |
| 18 | Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return . |
| 19 | In the Peak District and Northumberland National Parks many people held overnight vigils on appointed summits on the Friday and Saturday nights , while others walked to meet them on the summit . |
| 20 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 21 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 22 | Kate had decided to skip the afternoon 's classes and arranged to meet him at the boatyard near the Tech . |
| 23 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 24 | He arranged to meet her in his local . |
| 25 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 26 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 27 | Richard Wiles went to meet them at home . |
| 28 | I got a sun-'n'-sex postcard from Heraklion , worked out which day they 'd be returning , telephoned all possible airlines and went to meet them at Gatwick . |
| 29 | Breeze and Gay went to meet her at Clyst St George station , and hardly recognized the ultra-smart figure which languidly emerged from the train , as the boon companion of not so long ago . |
| 30 | Baldwin then went to meet her at Victoria Station and walked the half mile to their Eaton Square house with her , describing , as she subsequently wrote to her husband 's mother , what had happened , in slightly breathless terms : |