Example sentences of "[verb] met [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 3 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 4 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She halfexpected to find Griselda 's body , guessing that it might have met with the same fate as Melusina . |
| 8 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 9 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 10 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 11 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 12 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 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 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |
| 15 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 16 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 17 | On Aug. 11 President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had met with the Libyan leadership . |
| 18 | In Albania , Panic had met with the Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi , the first such visit by a Yugoslav leader to Tirana since 1948 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But when their eyes had met across the packed ballroom , for a fleeting instant the crowd had ceased to exist . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces . |
| 23 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 24 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 25 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |
| 26 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 27 | 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 . |