Example sentences of "had meet [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an inflationary age those who had sound customary tenures reaped the benefits of fixed annual rents , but those tenants who were successfully challenged by their lords had to meet demands for considerable increases . |
| 2 | We had to meet fire with fire . ’ |
| 3 | He had to meet Martin at four o'clock and he had to kill time till then . |
| 4 | A Mr Vicenzo , an American , had met Manningham at his office . |
| 5 | As a child at the Legation I had met officers from the Sudan , Kenya and Somaliland , who were serving as Consuls in the border areas of Abyssinia . |
| 6 | She was thinking back , to just over an hour ago , when she had met Simon on the sea front . |
| 7 | I had met Hugo at a party and unforeseen and overwhelming emotions had consumed me . |
| 8 | He had met women like Brenda before . |
| 9 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 10 | Coleman had met Ross in 1981 while writing his book Squeal , in which he described how Las Vegas superstar Wayne Newton had sued Ross and Silverman over an NBC story connecting him with organized crime . |
| 11 | The German engineers last week agreed that they had met problems with the clay earth , which had proved unstable because of burrowing by rodents , and because it dries out in the summer . |
| 12 | Iain had met Chris on the bench at Pinner Green , two years previously . |
| 13 | He was a small neat man with curly grey hair who had met Maxim at the airport . |
| 14 | He had met Pamela at a club . |
| 15 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the shooting was being treated as murder . |
| 16 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the killing of L/ Cpl Edwards was being treated as murder . |
| 17 | He had met Scott in Venice in 1851 . |
| 18 | Stuart had met Charlie during the winter . |
| 19 | I was terrified of anyone finding out , especially since the girl I had met stays in the same place as me , very close by . |
| 20 | They might have been saved if Rico had met tragedy with drama . |
| 21 | Tariq Aziz had met Gorbachev in Moscow on Sept. 5 , but " considerable differences " were acknowledged . |
| 22 | Anne had met presidents without a tenth of what Skinner was using . |
| 23 | Diana had met Fergie through polo . |
| 24 | Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police . |
| 25 | The young man from the Voice had met Seldes in Canada where , curiously ahead of his time , he was lecturing on television . |
| 26 | She had met Greg at a film-club meeting , where they had laughed through a leaden documentary on Cuba . |
| 27 | He had met Freud in a dark forest . |
| 28 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 29 | He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok . |
| 30 | The friend , Robin Davies , told Wirral coroner Christopher Johnson he had met Andrew in the Central Park pub in Bromborough on Friday evening , May 7 . |