Example sentences of "met [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the chief pleasures was seeing the reunion of many people who had first-hand experience of travelling or working on the Line , and met against after many years . |
| 2 | Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties . |
| 3 | Slightly larger than Dunlin ( p. 127 ) , and the only small dark wader with yellow legs likely to be met with on rocky shores . |
| 4 | He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux . |
| 5 | Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’ |
| 6 | There are cases where , from an economic point of view , the marriage valuables represent the purchase of a husband by the bride rather than vice versa , and the general European pattern , which is met with in many other parts of the world , is for the principal payment to be the bride 's " dowry " , a set of assets which she brings with her into the marriage as a part of her inheritance from her own kin . |
| 7 | Joseph Gamgee recorded that on his return from the Continent , Sewell said ‘ I have seen more lame horses while posting from Harwich to London than I have met with in all my journeys and during my inspection of veterinary schools and public places in France , Switzerland , Germany and Belgium ’ . |
| 8 | Good courses of ore had been met with in Deep Level , but Leathart pointed out , " the whole of the ground has been more or less worked prior to the present adventurers " . |
| 9 | At the end of the first month of the 1916–17 season City reached new goal-scoring heights , showing a ‘ superiority over the opposition to an extent seldom met with in first class football ’ ( Yorkshire Evening News ) . |
| 10 | The unleaded double-case double lid is met with in parochial , rather than private , vaults and both intramural and churchyard brick-lined graves . |
| 11 | The arms are placed across the breast , with the hands directed towards the opposite shoulder , a pose not met with in funerary sculpture . |
| 12 | The lesser rorqual ( or minke , as it is called in Norway ) is the largest of the cetaceans likely to be met with in inshore water around Shetland . |
| 13 | The House met at half-past Nine o'clock |
| 14 | The House met at half-past Nine o'clock |
| 15 | The House met at half-past Nine o'clock |
| 16 | The House met at half-past Nine o'clock |
| 17 | The House met at half-past Nine o'clock |
| 18 | The House met at half-past Nine o'clock |
| 19 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 20 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 21 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 22 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 23 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 24 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 25 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 26 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 27 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 28 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 29 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |
| 30 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock |