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 |