Example sentences of "had meet [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 2 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 3 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 4 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 5 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 6 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |
| 7 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 8 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 9 | On Aug. 11 President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt had met with the Libyan leadership . |
| 10 | In Albania , Panic had met with the Albanian Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi , the first such visit by a Yugoslav leader to Tirana since 1948 . |
| 11 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 12 | But when their eyes had met across the packed ballroom , for a fleeting instant the crowd had ceased to exist . |
| 13 | He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt . |
| 14 | That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 17 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |