Example sentences of "met [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 2 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 3 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 4 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 9 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 10 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 11 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 12 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 13 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 14 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 15 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 16 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 17 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 18 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 19 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 20 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 21 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 22 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 23 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 24 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 25 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 26 | Alec met us in the cobbled streets of Chiguana with an English-speaking doctor . |