Example sentences of "they met [prep] the " 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 the president . |
| 4 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 5 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They met on the Ponte Trinita , she seeing and calling out to him first . |
| 10 | They met on the set of the race car drama Days of Thunder in 1990 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They met on the polo field 20 years ago and the attraction was present from the start . |
| 13 | They met on the stairhead and Martin cried , ‘ You 've heard the news then ? ’ |
| 14 | They met on the Embankment this time , Alexander Rokovssky and the gentleman known as a diplomatic courier . |
| 15 | ‘ The last time they met on the face of this earth . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now they met on the Friday prior to the the delegate meeting and went all all over the agenda . |
| 18 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 19 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 20 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 21 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 22 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 24 | They met towards the end of January , and he kept the news from Theo until April . |
| 25 | ‘ She had her friends , but they met during the day . |
| 26 | They met in the Egyptian wing , at the same place each time , near a fragment of papyrus which was labelled , The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony . |
| 27 | The script of They Met in the Dark ( 1946 ) , in which James Mason is a discharged sea captain hunting down those who delivered fake orders to his ship , is a textureless and muddled affair . |
| 28 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 29 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 30 | He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner . |