Example sentences of "[verb] to meet [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 3 | Staggered strikes failed to meet with a response and the Ministry of Education , rather than negotiate , chose to end the school year a month early . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On 14 September 1982 Gemayel planned to meet with a group of Mossad officers , but was killed when a bomb planted by Syrian intelligence exploded in the local Phalangist party offices where he was speaking . |
| 6 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 7 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 8 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |
| 9 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 10 | You 'll find in our newspapers many signs of a extraordinary mental instability leading to terrible deeds ( that theological student who killed a girl he had arranged to meet in a shed , and who was arrested a hour later eating his breakfast — and so on ) . |
| 11 | Any financial assistance proposed to be given as part of the scheme would need to meet with the approval of the court . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A special Court of Governors was requested to meet at the infirmary on Saturday February 19th 1814 at 1 o'clock to elect a physician . |
| 14 | The three brothers had agreed to meet at the beginning of October , at Metz , where their father was buried . |
| 15 | The Bank has agreed to meet with the IBOA to discuss the plight of officials in the above category . |
| 16 | You 're going to meet with an accident , Mr Chan , and so is your son . |
| 17 | Gauging the kind of people you are going to meet in the way of giving you work . |
| 18 | that consultation , they were waiting to meet with the county er |
| 19 | The Minister also said that the Scottish Transport Group intends to meet with the trade unions to discuss pension arrangements . |
| 20 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | During the period of their reigns , the leading body of the king 's ministers , generally known as the cabinet , began to meet without the king being present . |
| 22 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 23 | We arranged to meet on a bench outside the Royal Academy at five o'clock . |
| 24 | We arranged to meet at the hotel the following morning . |
| 25 | They arranged to meet after the show , and Kattina took her to the houseboat which was her home . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was the bo ve bee , the insect that we most feared to meet in the forest . |
| 28 | The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend . |
| 29 | ‘ After the death of Sicelo I decided to meet with a lawyer and asked him to put down on record that I had taken part in a film . |
| 30 | At school , I once had an argument with a boy from another form and we decided to meet in the break to settle it with our fists . |