Example sentences of "and met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives of tourism interests in the valley were invited and met over lunch to talk about the HCIMA and its work for the industry worldwide . |
| 2 | Usually held in October , it lasted for eight days and met outside the North Gate near the sloe tree which gave it its name of Sloe Fair ; discipline and disputes were enforced by a ‘ pie-powder ’ ( dusty feet ) court which sorted out the inevitable problems . |
| 3 | Balbinder had to be seen onto it , and met at the end of the day . |
| 4 | Battle and bloodshed and betrayal lay behind them , and now they met peacefully in this large house , and slept peacefully in their separate rooms , and met at weekends over the marmalade , and would continue to do so until Charles 's new appointment took him , in a couple of months , to New York . |
| 5 | In Roman hemispherical domes , brick radiating ribs started at the springing and met at the apex . |
| 6 | The dominion status declaration was made in October 1929 and met on the Congress side by what amounted to a demand that it take immediate effect . |
| 7 | But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions . |
| 8 | Warrington set out to contain Widnes in their own half and pressure them into mistakes , and met with early success on both counts . |
| 9 | He was even more baffled when he tried to convert some of his Duchy property in Kennington into small units for single teenagers — a group that finds it notoriously difficult to find accommodation — and met with vociferous local anger . |
| 10 | Venturi turned professional and met with considerable success . |
| 11 | Three shops — Circle K , the Bombay Restaurant and Border Insurance — display externally lit fascias and met with parish council objections . |
| 12 | Subsequently , the daughter visited England and met with John , when many happy memories were shared . |
| 13 | Cilla Black once got into a shouting match at a charity show when she tried to cry up her beloved Thatcher and met with voluble consumer resistance . |
| 14 | Demands from local groups for increased participation in the processes of decision making concerning housing and welfare were seen as politically inspired and met with hostility . |
| 15 | There the story remained until December 1988 when six members of the Fenland Aircraft Preservation Society ( FAPS ) organised a field reconnaissance and met with a local farmer who remembered the crash and took us along to the field . |
| 16 | The future was always a foreign country , always took him by surprise and was always challenged and met with a charge . |
| 17 | Nivelle 's campaign in Champagne opened on 19 April and met with the same fate as most earlier attacks : some 120,000 Frenchmen fell before the German machine-guns and by the day 's end an advance of only 550m/600yds had been made , in tragic contrast to Nivelle 's expected g.6km/6mls . |
| 18 | The opening film , Jennie Livingstone 's ‘ Paris Is Burning ’ ( currently beating box office records in N.Y. ) opened a window to the world of vogueing , an entire cultural phenomenon rifled for its video value by Madonna — and met with a mixed reaction . |
| 19 | Meanwhile an ebullient three-year-old bounced over the people and the furniture , clamouring for conversation and met with exhausted expletives , " Shut up … get … off do n't … " |
| 20 | Co-existence and co-operation between the two organisations were apparently accepted by members , but these were not easy matters to explain to them or to the hearing world , and met with at least some opposition . |
| 21 | A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association . |
| 22 | A year or so later , after Girls Apart had been shown by the BBC and met with outraged protest by the South African Government , we heard a rumour that Sylvia had been killed . |
| 23 | The Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin also visited Jerusalem , on Oct. 17 , and met with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levi , while Baker met with Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir . |
| 24 | The concept of a statute for the CIS was mooted in Moscow , and met with general agreement , even from Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk who had previously fiercely opposed the creation of CIS bodies . |
| 25 | Hornby was invited to a conference on Australian Colleges of Advanced Education in 197 1 , and met with Australian visitors at the CNAA . |
| 26 | The proposal has upset residents living near the base , and met with a mixed reaction from the travellers themselves . |
| 27 | A keen football fan , he attended Dinamo 's first leg 2-1 win and met with Linfield chairman David Campbell . |
| 28 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 29 | The requirements of all nurses must be recognised , and met by allocating the appropriate experience . |
| 30 | Back in 1858 , the increase in urban development in Chiswick had required new controls — so the Chiswick Improvement Commissioners were elected by ballot and met in the hall of College House on Chiswick Mall . |