Example sentences of "[noun prp] met [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 2 | One ex-sailor whom Minton met at the Mandrake was Joshua ( ‘ Mike ’ ) Avery , then just embarking on his discovery of Soho and sharing a room with Daniel Farson . |
| 3 | On 17 September Bevin and Acheson met in the State Department ; Acheson stated that the American government had decided it was necessary to proceed with a peace treaty within the near future . |
| 4 | Wearing a smart , grey check suit Mrs Davies explained how she and Gilfoyle met at the Murrayfield Hospital where she was employed as a food service assistant . |
| 5 | Refining ideas which Ruskin had been the first to promulgate , ( Sir ) Robert Hunter , Octavia Hill , and Rawnsley met in the offices of the Commons Preservation Society on 16 November 1893 and founded the organization which , eight months later , was inaugurated under the presidency of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor , first Duke of Westminster [ q.v. ] , as the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty . |
| 6 | On this day : Peterborough Cathedral was consecrated , 1238 ; Miles Coverdale 's translation of the Bible was published , 1535 ; William Smith founded the Boys Brigade , Glasgow 1883 ; the first public escalator was opened , Earl 's Court underground station 1911 ; Hitler and Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass , 1940 ; the USSR launched Sputnik 1 , the world 's first artificial satellite , 1957 ; the first transatlantic passenger jet service started operating , 1958 ; USSR 's Lunik III , took the first close-up pictures of the moon , 1959 ; Pope Paul VI visited New York , the first pope to visit America , 1965 . |
| 7 | Premadasa met with the leaders of anti-LTTE Tamil groups in Colombo on July 13 and 26 . |
| 8 | On 7 August friends and colleagues of Bill Jamieson met in the conference room Glasgow to wish him well on his retirement . |
| 9 | KEVIN KEEGAN and I made all the headlines for being sent off and throwing our shirts down last time Leeds and Liverpool met in the Charity Shield . |
| 10 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 11 | In gale and hailstones , 125 pro-Lifers from Merseyside met at the pier head and brought the attention of shoppers to the plight of the most defenceless of all . |
| 12 | A further step towards closer ties with the British came in August 1941 , when Churchill and Roosevelt met on the battleship Prince of Wales in Placentia Bay , Newfoundland . |
| 13 | Milosevic met with the President of Montenegro , Momir Bulatovic , and the parliamentary Speaker of Bosnia-Hercegovina , Momcilo Krajisnik ( an ethnic Serb ) , for a summit in Belgrade on Aug. 12 to which representatives of Macedonia , Croatia and Slovenia were not invited . |
| 14 | The Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens met with the US Secretary of State James Baker in Washington on Feb. 23 . |
| 15 | Last Monday , as Smith and Muzorewa met in the railway carriage , an ANC man — a methodist minister , like Muzorewa , and close to the heart of the ANC — led the Caux Assembly in prayer for this land . |
| 16 | When Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens met in the spring of 1889 , she was an eccentric spinster of forty-five , whose myopic eyesight was beginning to restrict her many talents , and in particular her outstanding work in garden design . |
| 17 | Mr Thomas met with the chairperson and vice-chairperson of the Kampuchean Christian Committee which comprises 43 house churches and about 3,000 members throughout the country . |
| 18 | Carl and Helen Sandberg met at the bottom of the steps in the darkness and the rain . |