Example sentences of "[pers pn] met [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 2 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I met him during the summer vac . |
| 6 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 7 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 8 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 10 | I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them . |
| 11 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
| 12 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 13 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 14 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 15 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 16 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 17 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 18 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 19 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 20 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 21 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
| 22 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
| 23 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 26 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You met her at the Palace ? ’ |
| 28 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 29 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |