Example sentences of "met [pers pn] at " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He met me at the station … ’
2 I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’
3 Rich and Syb met me at the station .
4 My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item .
5 On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) .
6 Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room .
7 He met them at the gate and was smiling .
8 In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price .
9 He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law .
10 Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops .
11 Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs .
12 He then startled champions-elect Everton with an early goal when we met them at their Goodison Park headquarters a week later ( 1–2 ) .
13 ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
14 One met them at every turn asking plaintively , ‘ Has edyone god edy andihysterbine tableds ? ’
15 Superior forces led by the Earl of Morton met them at Carberry Hill near the earlier battlefield of Pinkie .
16 We met them at Carberry Hill .
17 His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate .
18 And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow .
19 I first met them at a trial .
20 As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door .
21 The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him .
22 I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me .
23 Right then , I 'll met you at the Co-op
24 Mona and Sheila met her at Dublin Airport and the three sisters drove to Great Meadow in Mona 's car .
25 He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later .
26 When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely .
27 He remained an active supporter of CND , boasted that his daughter had been conceived on an Aldermaston march , and had once horrified Margaret Thatcher by wearing his CND badge when he met her at a gathering of northern business people .
28 When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door .
29 He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company .
30 ‘ You met her at the Palace ? ’
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