Example sentences of "have meet [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases where a request has been made , it has met with a flat refusal . |
| 2 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 3 | The Citywatch project — which its organisers say must have private as well as public cash — has met with a mixed response from the city 's business community . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , however , family planning has met with a hostile reception . |
| 5 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 6 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 7 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 8 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 9 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 10 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 11 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 12 | Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives . |
| 13 | Aware that his intended , ‘ I , sir ? ’ would have met with the invariable bark , ‘ Yes , you , sir , ’ Thiercelin contented himself with looking staggered , which he was . |
| 14 | She halfexpected to find Griselda 's body , guessing that it might have met with the same fate as Melusina . |
| 15 | The organizers were rarely charged in court , probably because such a prosecution would have met with an unpleasant response . |
| 16 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 17 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 18 | The move to the Inn on the Lake seems to have met with a favourable response from students ; the pub has been described as a ‘ nice place to work ’ . |
| 19 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 20 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 21 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 22 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 23 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 24 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |
| 25 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 26 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The meeting was concerned with a new Australian peace plan which proposed a large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia and which had met with a favourable response at the UN Security Council during January and February . |
| 29 | On Aug. 11 President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had met with the Libyan leadership . |
| 30 | In Albania , Panic had met with the Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi , the first such visit by a Yugoslav leader to Tirana since 1948 . |