Example sentences of "meet [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 2 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 3 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 4 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 5 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 6 | Tony was with his mother when she first met them in the street . |
| 7 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 8 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 9 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 10 | She 's met a lot of friends here and and likes to meet them in the canteen . |
| 11 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 12 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 13 | It would be easier to meet you in the bar . |
| 14 | ‘ But why did you ask him to meet you in the garden instead of in the house ? ’ |
| 15 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 16 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 17 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , Jackson had managed to convey the essence of this tall , eccentric doctor in his report , enough to make Montgomery very curious to meet him in the flesh . |
| 19 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 20 | No doubt there were minions in plenty to see to the plane and Maggie noted that his sister had not come rushing to meet him in the car . |
| 21 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 22 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
| 23 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 24 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 25 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 26 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 27 | Meeting them in the evening , going on somewhere , being among the rowdy , but good-natured crowd had been her focus in weeks blurred with grief and pain . |
| 28 | Gwenellen thought neither , as if Marcus tonight was anything like Marcus last night Old Red would be far too busy to remember meeting me in the subway . |
| 29 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 30 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |