Example sentences of "meet [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 2 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 3 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 4 | That was how she met my father in the early years of the war . |
| 5 | In Harrogate I was to meet my editor for a pep talk . |
| 6 | I had arranged to meet my husband in a department store . |
| 7 | Agnes pushed Jessie towards the basin , hissing , ‘ Stay there ! ’ then hurried out of the room to meet her mother in the corridor , the while calling , ‘ I 'm coming . |
| 8 | ‘ To meet her couturier at the Hilton . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that the museums in the former USSR were unable to meet their share of the costs after August 1991 , the exhibition has gone ahead with the support of the Kunsthaus in Zurich , in particular its director Felix Baumann , and with most of the financial risk underwritten by George Ortiz himself . |
| 10 | The next chapter will examine recent issues that are engaging bureau workers in their search to meet their commitment to the community . |
| 11 | The railway companies built stations to accommodate passengers who never materialized , to flatter a vanity which was shortly to meet its fall in the face of both economic recession and the rise of alternative modes of transportation . |
| 12 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 13 | But the commune also served a major coercive function since the majority in each village stood to lose should an individual either fail to meet his share of the payments due or take to flight . |
| 14 | Stoically she continued to meet his gaze with an expression of polite interest carefully assumed to disguise the way her heart had increased its beating . |
| 15 | Her confidence was coming back now , so that she felt able to meet his gaze across the width of the small table . |
| 16 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 17 | Armed with papers , his head filled with lists of stockholdings , production figures , statistics of pre- and post-war profits and losses , with preliminary architectural plans for the restoration , first , of the three houses in France , and ideas for those property holdings abroad , Edouard arranged to meet his brother for a week-long series of discussions . |
| 18 | Certainly whenever the researchers arrived to arrange their initial series of interviews , several potential interviewees met their request for an interview with queries as to whether we were going to look at ‘ how the incomers/Shetlanders are mixing with Shetlander/incomers ’ . |
| 19 | These great leviathans of the air eventually met their demise with the development of British high flying aircraft armed with guns firing incendiary bullets . |
| 20 | That orb of bone , holed and yellowing , was what killed all those little creatures who met their death in the mud on the far side of the creek . |
| 21 | She met her reflection with a stubbornly squared chin , mentally preparing for battle . |
| 22 | He met her gaze with a certain amount of scepticism , looking very satisfied when she found herself unable to meet his eyes for long . |
| 23 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 24 | On woman met her husband on a working week |
| 25 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 26 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 27 | Lady Thatcher often accused her male colleagues of lacking guts … today she met her match in the Lady from Cheltenham . |
| 28 | I shall wish to see records of all dealings since the last formal audit , to ascertain the group 's cash position and to form an opinion of its prospects of meeting its debt to the bank within reasonable time . |
| 29 | Tracey meets her manager in the hall . |
| 30 | In the first reading Wing Commander Angus Morris told the congregation the men had met their death at an appointed hour |