Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] meet [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt . |
| 2 | But when their eyes had met across the packed ballroom , for a fleeting instant the crowd had ceased to exist . |
| 3 | All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers . |
| 4 | Prior to their expulsion the delegation had met with the families of imprisoned dissidents Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming [ see p. 38395 ] . |
| 5 | In Albania , Panic had met with the Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi , the first such visit by a Yugoslav leader to Tirana since 1948 . |
| 6 | It was the day following Ari 's first test and Leila , Ari and Roirbak had met in the canteen . |
| 7 | Now this head has pulled it back and parents have to meet in the playground . |
| 8 | The Minister also said that the Scottish Transport Group intends to meet with the trade unions to discuss pension arrangements . |
| 9 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 10 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 11 | Senior research administrators from both sides of the Atlantic plan to meet before the end of the month to discuss the implications to Anglo-French trial results which last week cast doubt on the usefulness of the drug AZT in treating HIV . |
| 12 | In late September Thach had met with the US Secretary of State , James Baker , at the UN in New York [ see p. 37713 ] . |
| 13 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 14 | Both teams have met in the decider so often that they are vastly familiar with each other 's style of play . |
| 15 | ‘ I read in the paper the other day that two people had met on the steps of St Paul 's Cathedral after fifty years or something . |
| 16 | On Aug. 11 President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had met with the Libyan leadership . |
| 17 | The curtains failed to meet in the middle , revealing a section of the room beyond : a high , narrow bed flanked by a massive wardrobe in dark , stained oak ; a large crucifix with an unusually lifelike Christ hanging on the wall . |
| 18 | A number of members of the Society began meeting in the building now occupied by Mr Ross Raymond 's cycle business — then the Anchor Cafe — and the Meeting House in Portmore Street was opened in 1905 . |
| 19 | It was at least ten summers past that the Colonel and Miss Danziger had met at The Tamarisks and the Colonel , finding the guest a most informed companion , had asked her assistance in helping him pin-point locations where he was most likely to uncover particular fossils , and attract particular moths . |
| 20 | Elected party members may have increased their role in cabinet , but key decisions had to meet with the approval of the Emperor and his personal advisors at Court . |
| 21 | Day and Tidbury had met in the toilet . |
| 22 | By the time the two sides prepared to meet on the field of Gettysburg , Llewellyn had risen to be the aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee the Confederate commander . |
| 23 | They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business . |
| 24 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |
| 25 | The WCA have met with the NRA to discuss access problems on the Sawdde . |
| 26 | Top ( needle ) thread and bottom ( bobbin ) threads have to meet in the middle of the materials being sewn . |
| 27 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 28 | Finding they had much in common , Coleman and Boohaker arranged to meet after the broadcast , and their subsequent friendship would doubtless have flourished anyway , even if the DIA had not pulled Coleman 's string in the autumn of 1989 and instructed him to cultivate the connection . |
| 29 | Since then , Cabinets have met without the monarch . |