Example sentences of "[pron] met [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 2 | This was the last time I met with the Harlequin Bronzewing . ’ |
| 3 | Like other Marranos in London , Carvajal prayed at the Catholic chapel of the Spanish ambassador , while simultaneously playing a leading role in the secret Jewish community , which met at the clandestine synagogue at Creechurch Lane . |
| 4 | I am aware he has met on a number of occasions with our members , and he was instrumental in selecting a team , which met with the General Secretary of USDAW who said that they had had a er a er reasonable meeting with him . |
| 5 | The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman ! |
| 6 | Early in the next month the regent began the process of reconciliation , granting the magnates their letters patent and agreeing in a parliament ( which met after the Scottish victory at Stirling Bridge ) to renew and confirm the charters , which was done in october following . |
| 7 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Defence Ministers who met in the Scottish resort of Gleneagles on Oct. 20-21 approved fresh guidelines for " a reduced reliance on nuclear weapons " and agreed to draw up firm plans by December for international peacekeeping operations , first outlined in May and June [ see pp. 38937 ; 38986 ] . |
| 8 | As Dr Reading told BBC WILDLIFE : ‘ We met at the first World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury in 1989 , and subsequently arranged to co-ordinate the two projects . ’ |
| 9 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 10 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 11 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 12 | We met in the early morning . |
| 13 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 14 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 15 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 16 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
| 17 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 18 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 19 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 20 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 21 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 22 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | They met in the Egyptian wing , at the same place each time , near a fragment of papyrus which was labelled , The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony . |
| 24 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 25 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 26 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 27 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 28 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |
| 29 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 30 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |