Example sentences of "[noun pl] have meet [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt .
2 But when their eyes had met across the packed ballroom , for a fleeting instant the crowd had ceased to exist .
3 All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers .
4 His wish that the entire community might join in the responses had met with no immediate assent and so , apart from the hymns , his own voice and the clerk 's must remain the sole conductors of divine energy .
5 Now this head has pulled it back and parents have to meet in the playground .
6 ‘ One of the workers has met with an accident , ’ was all she said .
7 Both teams have met in the decider so often that they are vastly familiar with each other 's style of play .
8 My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success .
9 My own efforts over a long period of time , plus correspondence and telephone calls to various bodies have met with no success .
10 Elected party members may have increased their role in cabinet , but key decisions had to meet with the approval of the Emperor and his personal advisors at Court .
11 Two men had met in a London flat : customer and supplier .
12 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 .
13 Top ( needle ) thread and bottom ( bobbin ) threads have to meet in the middle of the materials being sewn .
14 Its the first time the two men have met for a week and the outcome is that
15 Lipski explained that the proposals had met with no enthusiasm in Warsaw , and that while Foreign Minister Colonel Beck was prepared to discuss the removal of the League from Danzig , he was not prepared to hand the place back to Germany .
16 Since then , Cabinets have met without the monarch .
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