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

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1 It was then that she noticed how gravely and interestedly he was looking at her , had looked at her ever since they met outside the shop .
2 They met outside the Social Services and he had pleaded with her to return to him and their home in Oxford .
3 They met with no resistance from government troops .
4 Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 .
5 These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) .
6 Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to .
7 Six players had dual qualification and the Exiles were prepared to settle for Dobson and Hunter , but they met with a blanket refusal from the Ulster Branch .
8 They met with the president .
9 But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in .
10 They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order .
11 They met at a party in the mid '80s .
12 They met at a dance .
13 Helena Lisandrello says she had an affair with the actor after they met at a party in 1979 .
14 They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) .
15 She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney .
16 The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK .
17 And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move .
18 They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city .
19 He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber .
20 They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline .
21 Romance flared after they met on a camping holiday in Cap d'Agde in the South of France .
22 They met on the Ponte Trinita , she seeing and calling out to him first .
23 They met on the set of the race car drama Days of Thunder in 1990 .
24 An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey .
25 They met on the polo field 20 years ago and the attraction was present from the start .
26 They met on the stairhead and Martin cried , ‘ You 've heard the news then ? ’
27 They met on the Embankment this time , Alexander Rokovssky and the gentleman known as a diplomatic courier .
28 ‘ The last time they met on the face of this earth . ’
29 Rob Phone , Mr and Mrs National Holidays , and the journalist they met on the train have all gone their separate ways now , but perhaps a little enriched , a little relaxed , by a modicum of light , meaningless conversation .
30 Now they met on the Friday prior to the the delegate meeting and went all all over the agenda .
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