Example sentences of "they met [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 6 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 7 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 8 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 13 | Photographer Linda persuaded Paul to bare all soon after they met in the late Sixties . |