Example sentences of "[verb] met [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 2 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 3 | Aware that his intended , ‘ I , sir ? ’ would have met with the invariable bark , ‘ Yes , you , sir , ’ Thiercelin contented himself with looking staggered , which he was . |
| 4 | She halfexpected to find Griselda 's body , guessing that it might have met with the same fate as Melusina . |
| 5 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 6 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 7 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 8 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 9 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 10 | On Aug. 11 President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had met with the Libyan leadership . |
| 11 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 12 | But when their eyes had met across the packed ballroom , for a fleeting instant the crowd had ceased to exist . |
| 13 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 14 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 15 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |