Example sentences of "to be met by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had stepped into the steam room to be met by a blast of hissing scalding fog which caused him to breath in sharply , thereby promptly burning his nose . |
| 2 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What the hell 's he doing ? ’ whispered one policeman to another at the Kensington exchange , to be met by a shrug . |
| 4 | Ed McEd entered Nobles ' amusements to be met by a machinegun barrage of digitised sound . |
| 5 | My instinct , both of mercy and goodwill , was to seek Barbara 's approval to a reference to the Prime Minister , but an even stronger instinct told me that it was likely to be met by a flat refusal and that the negotiating process would be stillborn . |
| 6 | Eventually arrived at hotel in Marinna de Ravenna , to be met by a complimentary bottle of Champagne and this set us off the next day , on a full tank ! |
| 7 | Three weeks after the Goulds had sailed in the Kinnear , Gilbert arrived in Sydney , exhausted , penniless , and with a glorious haul of his own — only to be met by a letter of further instructions . |
| 8 | There was n't an inch of clear floor anywhere , so that she could hear the sickening crunch of glass under her feet as she made her way along the hall and peered into the sitting-room , to be met by a scene of similar devastation . |
| 9 | When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment . |
| 10 | I had arrived in the morning on a China Air flight from Taipei to be met by an ‘ expediter ’ : someone who specializes in facilitating the arrivals and departures of important people . |