Example sentences of "met him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 2 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 3 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 4 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 5 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
| 6 | They first met him on the platform at Liverpool Street station during one of their regular Friday shuttles between Norfolk and London . |
| 7 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 8 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 9 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 10 | Met him on the way to Kingston . |
| 11 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 12 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 13 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 14 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 15 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 16 | A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts . |
| 17 | Daniel Marsh usually met him at the station , but today Nahum was early . |
| 18 | You met him at the Kremlin . |
| 19 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 20 | Wood met him at the door . |
| 21 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 22 | Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 23 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 24 | Garvey , anxious to keep their line of work secret , met him at the foot of the ladder with whispered protests and badly disguised anger . |
| 25 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 26 | I met him during the summer vac . |
| 27 | Asmar 's fiancée , Giselle , Mary-Claude 's sister , met him off the boat , and as it was now Sunday , they joined the family for lunch at their house in Sarba . |
| 28 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 29 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 30 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |