Example sentences of "they meet [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They met outside the Social Services and he had pleaded with her to return to him and their home in Oxford . |
2 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
3 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
4 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
5 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
6 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
7 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
8 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
9 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
10 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
11 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
12 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
13 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
14 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
15 | His earliest rape , of a 19year-old girl , happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend . |
16 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
17 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
18 | They met in the Egyptian wing , at the same place each time , near a fragment of papyrus which was labelled , The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony . |
19 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
20 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
21 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
22 | Photographer Linda persuaded Paul to bare all soon after they met in the late Sixties . |
23 | They met in an undistinguished office block just off the Euston Road , two floors ofwhich were used as secure neutral territory for committees and meetings between Government depart-ments who would lose face by visiting the other fellow 's wigwam . |
24 | When they meet at the final masking , the atmosphere is again one of ceremony and solemnity , and they speak verse to each other ( V.iv.72–83 ) . |
25 | The corporation was sustaining appalling production losses and Finniston wrote to each of the trade unions suggesting that they meet on the neutral territory of a Heathrow hotel . |
26 | They meet on the last Tuesday of the month at 8pm at Stokesley Sports Club . |
27 | As she approaches it , she can not at first see Alix , but she believes that Alix will be there , and indeed momently she is : they converge , Esther from the west , Alix from the south , and moderate their pace ( Esther accelerating slightly , Alix marginally slowing down ) so that they meet upon the very corner itself . |