Example sentences of "he [verb] met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 3 | Her own son , now an engineer with an oil company in the States , had back-packed round Europe while at university and she remembered his homecoming , his hair bleached by the sun , seemingly taller and more mature , full of tales of the people he had met along the way . |
| 4 | Ernest and he had met on the golf links and both shared a love of collecting antiques . |
| 5 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 6 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 7 | Robert recognized him now : it was the restaurant-owner he had met on the day he had brought home Hasan — Mr Khan . |
| 8 | That evening , Anderson , at a subdued dinner with McKendrick and Chetwyn , argues with McKendrick about ethical problems before being approached by Hollar 's wife , whom he had met at the searching of the apartment ( scene eight ) . |
| 9 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 10 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 11 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 12 | It was Nicholson , the young clergyman he had met in the Lorton Valley , shy , the unsuccessful wooer of Miss Skelton , poorly paid , but on several occasions a most useful conversational refuge for the restless Colonel . |
| 13 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 14 | The first was that , as Hall had told the architects he had met before the competition , the Government were under no obligation to employ any of the successful competitors . |