Example sentences of "met [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's a man I met during the course of my work . ’ |
| 3 | We met during the course of the Windsor affair in nineteen forty . ’ |
| 4 | The people we met during the day became our table companions in the evening . |
| 5 | At first , she felt bereft , because all her friends were working and the people she met during the day were a generation older . |
| 6 | There also , in the early morning prayer time , Jesus heard the word that would sustain the weary he met during the day . |
| 7 | ‘ She had her friends , but they met during the day . |
| 8 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 9 | Someone , then , who you met during the surveillance of Latowa . |
| 10 | When it met after the Conference it set up a subcommittee to draft acceptable Standing Orders with which it could approach the Labour Party National Executive . |
| 11 | They met towards the end of January , and he kept the news from Theo until April . |
| 12 | I said , ‘ We met near the suspension bridge . ’ |
| 13 | We met with the head ski instructor first and he made us all ski down the slope individually so that he could put us into different groups . |
| 14 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 15 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 16 | I met with the CEO and his immediate reportees . |
| 17 | I met with the station officers at St Anne 's Head in June of this year and informed them of the way that divers should be operating . |
| 18 | On the same afternoon I met with the rail unions and ( loyally supported by Peter Parker ) put the position to them . |
| 19 | Roh also met with the rest of the North Korean delegation and reiterated Kang 's call for confidence-building measures as a prelude to improved bilateral relations . |
| 20 | Johnston said : ‘ We met with the man we want last night and he has agreed to join the club . |
| 21 | A week later , Gould described the dramatic and exciting moment when , as he and his companions were returning from hunting kangaroo on a distant part of the Namoi plain , they approached a small group of acacia trees , and he met with the bronzewing once again : |
| 22 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 23 | I never met with the fellow of her in my life . |
| 24 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 25 | Another recommendation was that unlicensed activity should be subject to tougher penalties , and this met with the Conference 's general approval . |
| 26 | Already in 1610 he was one of ‘ a select number of the Lower House ’ who met with the lord treasurer , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , son of his father 's patron , to discuss impositions . |
| 27 | Mr Thomas met with the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the Kampuchean Christian Committee which comprises 43 house churches and about 3,000 members throughout the country . |
| 28 | ‘ They met with the president . |
| 29 | Milosevic met with the President of Montenegro , Momir Bulatovic , and the parliamentary Speaker of Bosnia-Hercegovina , Momcilo Krajisnik ( an ethnic Serb ) , for a summit in Belgrade on Aug. 12 to which representatives of Macedonia , Croatia and Slovenia were not invited . |
| 30 | And the girl comes to see me — has been comin' ever since I met with the accident last year . |