Example sentences of "met [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief inspector was inwardly elated : at last she had a witness who claimed to have met Mills on the night he was murdered . |
| 2 | She was thinking back , to just over an hour ago , when she had met Simon on the sea front . |
| 3 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 4 | He said he 'd met Oliver in the florist 's round the corner on his way to the station . |
| 5 | Mr Chad told the jury that Faye Whitehead , 17 , of Torrs Park , Ifracombe , Devon , had met Harris at the Imperial Hotel where they both worked . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Iain had met Chris on the bench at Pinner Green , two years previously . |
| 8 | Stuart had met Charlie during the winter . |
| 9 | The accent was good enough to fool Canadian-born Bernard Braden , who had appeared in The War Lover but had not met Crawford during the filming , into thinking he really was American . |
| 10 | He had first met Sylvester during the early years of the war ; whilst in the Army he had sent him a letter ( now lost ) which Sylvester claims was one of the funniest and most brilliant he has ever received . |