Example sentences of "to meet [pers pn] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Richard Wiles went to meet them at home .
2 I got a sun-'n'-sex postcard from Heraklion , worked out which day they 'd be returning , telephoned all possible airlines and went to meet them at Gatwick .
3 I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place .
4 Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July .
5 Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours .
6 It is always a pleasure to meet you at Link meetings and other events .
7 ‘ Well , at least you 'll have someone to meet you at Euston , ’ Rose said softly to Maggie who already knew that she would be met .
8 I would have given much to meet him at Elsfield during one of his fleeting visits : indeed there was no one I would have been more interested to meet .
9 Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode .
10 His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east .
11 Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return .
12 ‘ Yes — I was to meet him at Glasgow and I was late .
13 Ramsey was asked to meet him at dinner in Magdalene before the meeting and to second the vote of thanks in the Guildhall .
14 In June 1860 he invited William , the Prince Regent of Prussia , to meet him at Baden , whose Grand Duke agreed to act as host .
15 Pointy-Beard simply said that Sunil wanted to see me when he 'd finished eating and we were going to meet him at Shazam 's and did I know it .
16 Baldwin then went to meet her at Victoria Station and walked the half mile to their Eaton Square house with her , describing , as she subsequently wrote to her husband 's mother , what had happened , in slightly breathless terms :
17 Deborah invited me to meet her at home in North London , and mentioned on the phone that her mum , Elaine , would like to meet me too .
18 Breeze and Gay went to meet her at Clyst St George station , and hardly recognized the ultra-smart figure which languidly emerged from the train , as the boon companion of not so long ago .
19 ‘ You can give me another place to meet her at night-time , a more private place , which she can choose and no one will be able to find out . ’
20 Even Barcelona would be pushed to meet it at present .
21 Omar had arranged for Beyyene , a negadi or muleteer , to meet us at Mojjo Station , sixty miles down the line , with his men and twenty pack mules , and we sent Kassimi , Goutama and Makonnen ahead with our own animals to join him there .
22 So they 'll send to Castle Tioram for men to meet us at dawn .
23 We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) .
24 I 'll telephone someone I know in COBRA and ask him to meet us at Melbury Court . ’
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