Example sentences of "[noun prp] met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 2 | One ex-sailor whom Minton met at the Mandrake was Joshua ( ‘ Mike ’ ) Avery , then just embarking on his discovery of Soho and sharing a room with Daniel Farson . |
| 3 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 4 | On 17 September Bevin and Acheson met in the State Department ; Acheson stated that the American government had decided it was necessary to proceed with a peace treaty within the near future . |
| 5 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 6 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 7 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 8 | The oil ministers of Iraq , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Qatar and the UAE met in the Saudi city of Jeddah on July 10-11 and an agreement was reached on curbing over-production . |
| 9 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 10 | During a visit to Israel on Dec. 2-3 Prime Minister Felipe González met with the Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , with Labour Party leaders including the party president Shimon Peres , and with a group of Palestinian leaders including Faisal al-Husseini and a representative of the Islamic party Hamas . |
| 11 | The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) . |
| 12 | He is an old man who Mr Browning met in the burning streets of Florence last month half out of his wits and with nowhere to go his wife having thrown him out for what reason I do not know . |
| 13 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |
| 14 | Wearing a smart , grey check suit Mrs Davies explained how she and Gilfoyle met at the Murrayfield Hospital where she was employed as a food service assistant . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , two Panthers A and B teams , also from Blurton met in the junior final — with the A side running out winners . |
| 16 | Refining ideas which Ruskin had been the first to promulgate , ( Sir ) Robert Hunter , Octavia Hill , and Rawnsley met in the offices of the Commons Preservation Society on 16 November 1893 and founded the organization which , eight months later , was inaugurated under the presidency of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor , first Duke of Westminster [ q.v. ] , as the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty . |
| 17 | On this day : Peterborough Cathedral was consecrated , 1238 ; Miles Coverdale 's translation of the Bible was published , 1535 ; William Smith founded the Boys Brigade , Glasgow 1883 ; the first public escalator was opened , Earl 's Court underground station 1911 ; Hitler and Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass , 1940 ; the USSR launched Sputnik 1 , the world 's first artificial satellite , 1957 ; the first transatlantic passenger jet service started operating , 1958 ; USSR 's Lunik III , took the first close-up pictures of the moon , 1959 ; Pope Paul VI visited New York , the first pope to visit America , 1965 . |
| 18 | In Damascus on April 17 Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin met with the Syrian President Hafez al-Assad . |
| 19 | Premadasa met with the leaders of anti-LTTE Tamil groups in Colombo on July 13 and 26 . |
| 20 | On 7 August friends and colleagues of Bill Jamieson met in the conference room Glasgow to wish him well on his retirement . |
| 21 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 22 | Representatives from the Baltic states and all the Soviet republics except Kazakhstan and Turkmenia , plus representatives from Moscow and St Petersburg met in the Estonian capital , Tallinn , on Sept. 20 to discuss economic issues separate from any of the plans for economic union . |
| 23 | KEVIN KEEGAN and I made all the headlines for being sent off and throwing our shirts down last time Leeds and Liverpool met in the Charity Shield . |
| 24 | In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 26 | In gale and hailstones , 125 pro-Lifers from Merseyside met at the pier head and brought the attention of shoppers to the plight of the most defenceless of all . |
| 27 | A further step towards closer ties with the British came in August 1941 , when Churchill and Roosevelt met on the battleship Prince of Wales in Placentia Bay , Newfoundland . |
| 28 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 29 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 30 | The Libyan leader Col. Moamer al Kadhafi and President Hissène Habré of Chad met in the Moroccan capital , Rabat , on Aug. 22-23 for talks hosted by King Hassan . |