Example sentences of "met [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , as Christian acidly remarked , his friend Edouard was a man of many parts — not just one , which he had suspected when he had first met Edouard in London . |
| 2 | In deference to these views Cropper seems to have met groups of ‘ influential citizens ’ and spoken to clearly defined religious gatherings . |
| 3 | My immediate neighbours were miners ; and in my walks on the hills , eating up time and taking the free air , I had often met groups of miners going along the old Roman road that ran along the spine of the hill above my home . |
| 4 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the shooting was being treated as murder . |
| 5 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the killing of L/ Cpl Edwards was being treated as murder . |
| 6 | Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer . |
| 7 | The chief inspector was inwardly elated : at last she had a witness who claimed to have met Mills on the night he was murdered . |
| 8 | He had met Pamela at a club . |
| 9 | And with us , she 's met loads of people and she goes out with them a lot through college so |
| 10 | She 's met loads of really nice people and does n't know where to put her eyes while the blokes walk past ! |
| 11 | The young man from the Voice had met Seldes in Canada where , curiously ahead of his time , he was lecturing on television . |
| 12 | yes , had you met opposition to the introduction of that contingency fund ? |
| 13 | In doing so they had met opposition from the authorities . |
| 14 | The Embassy 's letter , from Zvi Rav — Ner , information counsellor , stated that Mr Nathan was charged with breaking the law after having met Arafat on several occasions in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 15 | He had met Freud in a dark forest . |
| 16 | He had met Scott in Venice in 1851 . |
| 17 | Tariq Aziz had met Gorbachev in Moscow on Sept. 5 , but " considerable differences " were acknowledged . |
| 18 | They might have been saved if Rico had met tragedy with drama . |
| 19 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 20 | The Krays were jailed for life in ( 1969 ) nineteen sixty nine , but their young fans have written to them , and one has even met Reggie in prison . |
| 21 | She 'd never even met Dominic before this weekend . ’ |
| 22 | Coleman had met Ross in 1981 while writing his book Squeal , in which he described how Las Vegas superstar Wayne Newton had sued Ross and Silverman over an NBC story connecting him with organized crime . |
| 23 | He could have met Heather on Profitis Ilias — by agreement or by surprise . ’ |
| 24 | She was thinking back , to just over an hour ago , when she had met Simon on the sea front . |
| 25 | Pupils in schools designated for those with moderate learning difficulties have often met failure throughout their schooling . |
| 26 | He was a hale fellow well met sort of Yorkshireman you know , a bluff Yorkshireman . |
| 27 | He 'd met Elaine on several trips around the island which Christina had arranged , including a hilarious afternoon when the three of them decided to try out the hotel 's water sports and attempted to learn to water-ski after too many rum sours at the Reef Bar . |
| 28 | Tobie had previously met Primaflora on rare occasions only — during the search for Tristâo and Diniz Vasquez on Rhodes ; on the ambushed ship that brought them from Rhodes , and in the King 's hall at Kiti immediately after . |
| 29 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 30 | Met Head in corridor who wished to see me urgently regarding an incident which occurred when I was out . |