Example sentences of "[vb base] met [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And she was supposed to be a witch right enough and the men from all round about here er had a meeting about it and they I think met at the barn of Dale .
2 He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time .
3 What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ?
4 We often get to bed very , very late at night because we 've met with the host record company of whatever country we are in .
5 ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’
6 ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped .
7 Since then , Cabinets have met without the monarch .
8 Its the first time the two men have met for a week and the outcome is that
9 Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party .
10 Republican conspirators had found little support ; Picornell , whom we have met as a republican conspirator in Spain , failed to engineer a rebellion , while Miranda 's expedition of 1806 was a fiasco .
11 He said : ‘ We have met with a wall of silence over this business .
12 For this reason , arguments for the existence of the monster based upon visual evidence have met with a good deal of scepticism .
13 For some years now , sociolinguists have attempted to extend quantitative methods to the study of syntactic variation , and have met with a number of problems which are both methodological and of a broader theoretical kind .
14 Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate .
15 Repeated requests from local residents for a footpath have met with no success .
16 My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success .
17 My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success .
18 The WCA have met with the NRA to discuss access problems on the Sawdde .
19 I 'm sure they have met with an accident .
20 In the men 's competition , the Mauritius Cup , the two northern teams have enjoyed a monopoly in recent years and have met in every final since 1983 .
21 Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person .
22 Six separate sections on two double-page spreads give them varied and interesting practice in all aspects of the language points they have met in the Preview and the Soap .
23 Both teams have met in the decider so often that they are vastly familiar with each other 's style of play .
24 And then our own facilities , as Carlos has already mentioned , have been used for conferences of Third World First and other development groups occasionally have met in the Institute , and of course erm our own staff and students , and indeed sometimes Third Worlders spending a period at the Institute have given local talks and participated in local meetings .
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