Example sentences of "[pers pn] met with [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I met with little success . ’ |
2 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
3 | It is known that the Lombard King Alboin brought his army and then his people on to the plain in 568 , and that they met with little resistance as the Goths had almost vacated the area by that time . |
4 | On his return from China on Dec. 30 Herzog stopped over in Kazakhstan when he met with that country 's President , Nursultan Nazarbayev . |
5 | It met with some success , and on 19 June 1890 the Kensington Burial Board discussed the possibility of the Guardians of the Poor using such wicker baskets for pauper burials , but the Board of Guardians declined owing to their cost . |
6 | But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement . |