Example sentences of "[verb] met [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretary of State Peter Lilley MP has met representatives of the national brewers . |
| 2 | He said he 'd met Oliver in the florist 's round the corner on his way to the station . |
| 3 | Penny would have known more wives from the Agency and from the Bureau than she would have met wives from the Service . |
| 4 | The chief inspector was inwardly elated : at last she had a witness who claimed to have met Mills on the night he was murdered . |
| 5 | It was discovered that hotel records appeared to confirm the claim by Iranian arms dealer Jamshid Hashemi that he was indeed in Madrid in late July 1988 , one of the occasions upon which he claimed to have met representatives from the Reagan campaign . |
| 6 | As a child at the Legation I had met officers from the Sudan , Kenya and Somaliland , who were serving as Consuls in the border areas of Abyssinia . |
| 7 | She was thinking back , to just over an hour ago , when she had met Simon on the sea front . |
| 8 | The German engineers last week agreed that they had met problems with the clay earth , which had proved unstable because of burrowing by rodents , and because it dries out in the summer . |
| 9 | Iain had met Chris on the bench at Pinner Green , two years previously . |
| 10 | He was a small neat man with curly grey hair who had met Maxim at the airport . |
| 11 | Stuart had met Charlie during the winter . |
| 12 | I was terrified of anyone finding out , especially since the girl I had met stays in the same place as me , very close by . |
| 13 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 14 | The friend , Robin Davies , told Wirral coroner Christopher Johnson he had met Andrew in the Central Park pub in Bromborough on Friday evening , May 7 . |
| 15 | In doing so they had met opposition from the authorities . |
| 16 | Mr Chad told the jury that Faye Whitehead , 17 , of Torrs Park , Ifracombe , Devon , had met Harris at the Imperial Hotel where they both worked . |
| 17 | My officials have met representatives of the local education authorities to discuss various aspects of the new proposals and there has also been correspondence with the Department . |