Example sentences of "meet them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 2 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 3 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 4 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 5 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 6 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 7 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 8 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 9 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 10 | Who met them on the beaches ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Tony was with his mother when she first met them in the street . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 15 | Others we chatted with when we met them around the grounds , and some became temporary friends who asked us in for coffee or drinks , invitations which we pleasurably returned . |
| 16 | Its primary concern is to find out what its customers needs and wants are so as to meet them with the highest level of customer satisfaction . |
| 17 | What is more , we have sought to identify areas of disability that in the past have not had the attention that they deserve , and to meet them with the new benefits . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
| 20 | Colin and John wish to thank White 's Electronics for the posters , key-rings and badges they supplied and Denise Rushton , who not only let them have exhibition space free of charge , but also travelled from Leicester to Telford to meet them on the day . |
| 21 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 22 | ‘ There will be no great welcome back here for the tour party — the only people to meet them at the airport will be their wives , ’ he said bitterly . |
| 23 | On that Sunday evening Lady Eleanor was instructed to meet them outside the Galilee Gate . |
| 24 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She 's met a lot of friends here and and likes to meet them in the canteen . |
| 27 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I believe that we would get on better with our men ; we would have less friction and less legislation if we were to meet them round the table and discuss mutual affairs with them in a suitable manner . |
| 30 | Each local authority was required to estimate the needs of primary , secondary and further education in its area , and to submit plans for meeting them to the ministry . |