Example sentences of "met the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 2 | Major-General Holomisa met the president of the ANC in London recently . |
| 3 | The visit completes a number of exchanges which began after General Yazov met the former US Defence Secretary , Frank Carlucci , in Switzerland last year . |
| 4 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 5 | Richardson , 37 , who met the the girl while she was walking her dog beside the river near her home in King 's Lynn , Norfolk , was given a 16-month sentence for having sex with a girl under 16 , the legal age of consent . |
| 6 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 7 | Four bishops representing the Catholic Church and the Zimbabwe Council of Churches yesterday met the university 's Vice-Chancellor , Walter Kamba , to urge that the campus be reopened and to learn the fate of the estimated 40 students arrested following the protests . |
| 8 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 9 | Mr Owen met the Home Secretary , Douglas Hurd , on 20 September and suggested that senior officials within the Department of Health , the social services and various community bodies should meet to discuss the problem . |
| 10 | Easily recognised by his boar 's head tie , his enthusiasm and appetite was first whetted when he met the ‘ iron-age ’ pig several years ago . |
| 11 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 12 | That 's why he met the seven earlier in the afternoon . |
| 13 | She comfortably made her semi-final , where she met the Canadian , Nathalie Gosselin . |
| 14 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 15 | We next met the day he arrived in Normandy . |
| 16 | After the ceremony Sir Michael and Lady Graydon circulated amongst the guests and met the residents before partaking of an excellent buffet lunch provided by RAF Cottesmore — another example of the support given by the serving RAF . |
| 17 | On a return visit to Fettes , Arthur Ramsey stayed with one of the housemasters and met the sister Agnes Wilson , who kept house there . |
| 18 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 19 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 20 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 21 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 22 | While she was filming in the south of France , she met the writer Colette who insisted Audrey play Gigi on Broadway in America . |
| 23 | Coming back from the pillar box at the end of Charteris Road , Nurse Rose met the Private Wing sister . |
| 24 | Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes . |
| 25 | When the Housing Corporation refused to contribute to the cost of these features , the HBC relaxed its general policy of contributing only 50 per cent of the cost of eligible items and met the full cost . |
| 26 | The woman did as she was told , met the Princess , and went into labour in the car on the way home . |
| 27 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 28 | It met the flight attendants ' union on Monday and is also hoping to talk to the pilots ' union . |
| 29 | This might seem more than enough for one life , but in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to which she was now sent she met the woman with whom she formed the other crucial relationship of her life , with Milena Jesenska , whose own life experience drew Margarete intensely , if vicariously , into another of the crucial Central European milieux of that period — the Prager Kreis of Willy Haas , Max Brod and Kafka , whose lover , and early translator , Milena was . |
| 30 | Beneath a vaulted whitewashed ceiling and surrounded by strange blocks and squares which artists said were ‘ pictures , ’ the playwright , Vaclav Havel , met the world 's press . |