Example sentences of "[adv] meet [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 2 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 3 | A talkative Bruce Willis dropped me outside the London flat fifteen minutes later ( you can assess the situation on the way upstairs ) , and Kenneth came down to meet me at the door . |
| 4 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 5 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 6 | Daniel Marsh usually met him at the station , but today Nahum was early . |
| 7 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 8 | Although Rob , affectionately known as Mr Brora , has retired , you might still meet him in the shop that bears his name , now run by Colin Taylor , another well-respected and well-liked Brora angler . |
| 9 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 10 | They will also meet you at the train stations . |
| 11 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 12 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 13 | An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board . |
| 14 | I knew the farmer who was hiding him , Signor Merli , because I had often met him in the bank , and I knew he was a very honest and reliable man who would never betray anybody . |
| 15 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't meet him on the lane . ’ |
| 17 | We sometimes met her in the street on her way from classes , and she always stopped to talk to us . |
| 18 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 19 | I 'll have to get Roberto , my hairdresser , and his manicurist to virtually meet me off the plane . ’ |
| 20 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 21 | As for the personal appearances , many viewers are actually meeting you in the flesh for the first time . |