Example sentences of "had meet [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elected party members may have increased their role in cabinet , but key decisions had to meet with the approval of the Emperor and his personal advisors at Court . |
| 2 | Ernest and he had met on the golf links and both shared a love of collecting antiques . |
| 3 | On the return journey from Fairbanks to Edmonton I enjoyed a two-day stopover in Whitehorse where the manager of the new cinema , whom I had met on the way north , looked me up . |
| 4 | Robert recognized him now : it was the restaurant-owner he had met on the day he had brought home Hasan — Mr Khan . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now there was longing and bitterness in his voice and she caught a glimpse of the man she had met on the boat . |
| 9 | ‘ I read in the paper the other day that two people had met on the steps of St Paul 's Cathedral after fifty years or something . |
| 10 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of her closest allies and friends in the last years of her life was Jane Clifford , whom she had met during the Platt Hall venture and to whom she now offered a new job as historical adviser . |
| 13 | Others I had met at the Commando Training Centre in the Scottish Highlands . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When they had met at the pub , and boasted of the ease of the despatch of the packet that Michael Holly would carry , he had never thought of a moment such as this . |
| 16 | But her natural good manners got the better of her and she found herself saying ‘ good evening ’ and reminding Penelope that they had met at the vicarage . |
| 17 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 20 | Indeed , she had respected Angela Morgan for the straightforwardness with which she had tackled the issue when they had met at the lawyer 's office . |
| 21 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 22 | It was at least ten summers past that the Colonel and Miss Danziger had met at The Tamarisks and the Colonel , finding the guest a most informed companion , had asked her assistance in helping him pin-point locations where he was most likely to uncover particular fossils , and attract particular moths . |
| 23 | Prior to their expulsion the delegation had met with the families of imprisoned dissidents Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming [ see p. 38395 ] . |
| 24 | In late September Thach had met with the US Secretary of State , James Baker , at the UN in New York [ see p. 37713 ] . |
| 25 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 26 | The couple she had met as the Corduroys , Ken and Louise , were holding plates and looking round for somewhere to sit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business . |
| 30 | Day and Tidbury had met in the toilet . |