Example sentences of "met [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 2 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 3 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 4 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 5 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 6 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 7 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 8 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 9 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 10 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 11 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 12 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 13 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 14 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 15 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 16 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 17 | Tony was with his mother when she first met them in the street . |
| 18 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 19 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 20 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 21 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 22 | The eyes which met his across the table top were bright with horror and with an excitement which was too close to relish to be comfortable . |
| 23 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 24 | Guy met you on the road ? ’ he queried delicately , with obvious caution . |
| 25 | Right then , I 'll met you at the Co-op |
| 26 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 27 | Nothing much else happened , as far as I recall … but then I did n't visit the cottage much , not before that morning when I met you in the garden . |
| 28 | I even met one in the walnut tree when I was working in the garden one night . |
| 29 | We never met anybody in the country , but sometimes we visited some of my family who live near London . |
| 30 | " Mr Lee met her outside the church , " she said slowly . |