Example sentences of "[noun] met " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers from Lothian and Borders , Grampian , Northern Constabulary and Cambridgeshire met to review the investigation . |
| 2 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 3 | Miss Honey met her gaze without flinching . |
| 4 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 5 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 6 | It was at the Camp that Alison met husband Jeff — who actually lived a few miles away back home ! |
| 7 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 8 | I mean , me and Will met in Carter Lane … ’ |
| 9 | Under the former ‘ rate support grant ’ ( RSG ) arrangement , as a local authority increased its expenditure , government grant met a constant percentage of the additional expenditure . |
| 10 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 11 | They were driven to this by the obstructiveness that Stirling met with . |
| 12 | First though , while in Cairo , Stirling met some illustrious company . |
| 13 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 14 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
| 15 | As he groped his way under his seat , seeking somewhere to stow the paper , his fingers met something cold and hard and sharp . |
| 16 | His fingers met the soft , masking texture of cloth , but beneath them he could feel her warmth , the firm softness of her sex . |
| 17 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
| 18 | Bufi met Pope John Paul II in the Vatican on July 4 , when Albania and the Holy See agreed to re-establish the diplomatic relations broken off following the communist takeover in Albania in 1946 . |
| 19 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries together with Panama met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) member countries in Managua , the Nicaraguan capital , on March 18-19 for the seventh annual meeting on EC-Central American co-operation , which was also attended by the Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Venezuela and Mexico . |
| 20 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 21 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 22 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 23 | from loyalist organisations and political groups met Whitelaw , the Northern Ireland Office would afterwards issue a press statement that such and such topics had been discussed and that he had emphasised the evils of violence and gangsterism . |
| 24 | Prior to the conference various groups met to produce short contributions to the debate . |
| 25 | Some 2,000 representatives of Ivoirian institutions , trade unions and lobby groups met President Félix Houphouet-Boigny for five days of discussions on the country 's economic , social and political problems on Sept. 21-26 , 1989 . |
| 26 | On Monday , August 24 , after a meeting with the King in the morning , MacDonald met his Cabinet once more , at noon . |
| 27 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 28 | Maria met Cavell 's watchful sapphire eyes and a furious resentment gripped her , felt on Cavell 's behalf almost as much as her own , because Luke could n't have spoken to her as he had earlier , openly stating that he intended to make her his mistress , if he had had any real regard for Cavell , or women in general , for that matter . |
| 29 | Three weeks ago Goering met some Englishmen on Sylt , you know it ? |
| 30 | Ben met his eyes again , fixing that same penetrating stare on him . |