Example sentences of "meet a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 2 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 3 | Against the broad yellow light Cameron and Menzies could see the officer in silhouette , walking his horse forwards to meet a crowd in the road where it levelled out after the sharp rise from the bridge across to Grandtully . |
| 4 | Where possible I allowed the cutter to go through to meet a similar cut . |
| 5 | We will attempt to meet a substantial part of our energy needs from benign , renewable sources of energy . ’ |
| 6 | Home shopping held its profits at £13m which could well reflect the use of provisions raised on the Freemans acquisition to meet a net 10 per cent staff reduction . |
| 7 | This is because the primary aim of most hostels is to meet a housing need . ’ |
| 8 | CONCERN is growing that a number of stockbrokers will be unable to meet a January deadline for VAT changes which are expected to reduce the cost of share dealing . |
| 9 | Page 29 Broking concern : Concern is growing that a number of stockbrokers will be unable to meet a January deadline for VAT changes which are expected to reduce the cost of share dealing . |
| 10 | Mr Baker proposed a meeting with Israel 's Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , and his Egyptian counterpart , Esmat Abdel-Maguid , after Israeli leaders last Friday rejected Egypt 's invitation to meet a Palestinian delegation in Cairo . |
| 11 | I could just ask him casual like — you know , like I 'm going to meet a friend there or summat , but I ca n't remember the address . |
| 12 | Fleck should be back soon to sharpen that attack , but for today Stringer names an unchanged squad of 13 to meet a side which has Sutton back in goal after five games ' absence at the expense of Crossley . |
| 13 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |
| 14 | But there is a widespread belief that the travelling public will be forced to meet a substantial share of the new safety costs through higher fares , because of the Government 's policy of reducing taxpayers ' support for the railways . |
| 15 | In Sapinta , three miles south of the Russian border , a chambermaid begs for a packet of ground coffee to meet a doctor 's bill ; when the doctor arrives , he complains wearily that there is no anaesthetic in the hospitals . |
| 16 | Rather we go with a gospel of love which invites others to meet a Lord who is merciful , compassionate , and whose yoke is easy . |
| 17 | What sheer bad luck to meet a literary policeman when he was trying to do something nefarious but necessary . |
| 18 | A letter to the Reich Propaganda Ministry from a former employee currently in a military hospital , dealing with the mood among soldiers , stated that he had yet to meet a single one who accepted the Führer 's figures . |
| 19 | In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country . |
| 20 | It was a relief to meet a genuine writer , a woman whose face was etched with a record of suffering and sensibility . |
| 21 | It was not a ‘ true ’ style because it had not developed within an era to meet a genuine need ; it was merely copying the dead and it ‘ degrades architecture from its high position of a quasi-natural production to that of a mere imitative art ’ , a criticism often levied by professional architects against the wishes of the man in the street . |
| 22 | The changes are associated with a £2.4m overdraft Young has agreed with its banks to meet a financial crisis which has put it in breach of the covenants on £5.4m worth of convertible preference shares issued four months ago . |
| 23 | On each of the three occasions this century where there has been a clear coalition government — May 1915 to November 1922 , August 1931 to September 1932 , and May 1940 to May 1945 — it has been to meet a national emergency . |
| 24 | Perhaps even more surprising is to meet a Syrian taxi driver in Damascus describing what he heard the other day on Israel Radio . |
| 25 | The club failed to meet a Thursday midnight deadline set by the High Court for payment of £22.8 million to Cabra for the purchase of Stamford Bridge . |
| 26 | He said the US authorities were paying a substantial part of the costs incurred by the wives in preparing their legal challenge , but no provision had been made to meet a costs order in favour of Cherwell council . |
| 27 | TRIPOS offers scientific software for most personal computers to meet a wide range of research needs . |
| 28 | He introduced himself to all the furniture , saying how nice it was to meet a particular table , or how nice the covering was on a chair . |
| 29 | In Nice Modigliani was delighted to meet a man he had recently painted , the Russian-born Cubist painter , Leopold Sturzvage ( known usually as Survage ) . |
| 30 | And there , for the time being , let us leave Vic Wilcox , while we travel back an hour or two in time , a few miles in space , to meet a very different character . |