Example sentences of "[verb] meet [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage … |
| 2 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 3 | As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund . |
| 4 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 5 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 6 | Teacher Researcher groups are expected to meet on a regular basis . |
| 7 | In many cases where a request has been made , it has met with a flat refusal . |
| 8 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 9 | The Citywatch project — which its organisers say must have private as well as public cash — has met with a mixed response from the city 's business community . |
| 10 | Generally speaking , however , family planning has met with a hostile reception . |
| 11 | The county chairman Brian Walsh said : ‘ We have a very full agenda for our scheduled meeting on October 26 so it was decided to meet on the 10th with cricket as the sole topic of discussion . ’ |
| 12 | In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated . |
| 13 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 14 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 15 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 16 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 17 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 18 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 19 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 20 | We all had an extra cup of coffee to celebrate meeting in a foreign land . |
| 21 | To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule . |
| 22 | One was to Adam Russell whom she arranged to meet at an Italian restaurant in Pimlico . |
| 23 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 24 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 25 | Matron said she 'd find the others and they arranged to meet in the sick bay . |
| 26 | Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives . |
| 27 | Aware that his intended , ‘ I , sir ? ’ would have met with the invariable bark , ‘ Yes , you , sir , ’ Thiercelin contented himself with looking staggered , which he was . |
| 28 | She halfexpected to find Griselda 's body , guessing that it might have met with the same fate as Melusina . |
| 29 | The organizers were rarely charged in court , probably because such a prosecution would have met with an unpleasant response . |
| 30 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |