Example sentences of "[noun sg] meet [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a great pleasure to meet you at the Conference in Lisbon and to talk about your proposal for an introduction to CALL . |
| 2 | It was a pleasure to meet you at the Scottish Taxi Federation exhibition at Riccarton last week . |
| 3 | It is always a pleasure to meet you in the field and I appreciate your commitment to creating a better housing business and providing greater satisfaction for our customers . |
| 4 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 5 | ‘ At first , yes , and he often summoned the Queen to meet him across the Forth , but in the weeks before he died , his visits became less frequent . |
| 6 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 7 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 8 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 9 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 10 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 11 | A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts . |
| 12 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 13 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |
| 14 | ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow . |
| 15 | A sternfaced Sergeant meets me at the entrance to the big house . |
| 16 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 17 | Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was . |
| 18 | Death met him by the way , and laid him here . |
| 19 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 20 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 21 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 22 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |