Example sentences of "[pers pn] met him [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him during the summer vac . |
| 2 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
| 8 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 13 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 14 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
| 15 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
| 16 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |