Example sentences of "met [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 2 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 3 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 4 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tony was with his mother when she first met them in the street . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I met her in the March . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I met her in the March . |
| 11 | ‘ Donald is desperately ill ! ’ was the first thing she said , as he met her in the hall . |
| 12 | Silly-Willie met her in the hall , he came from the farthest door ; his step was as fast and light as his dancing . |
| 13 | Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen . |
| 14 | We sometimes met her in the street on her way from classes , and she always stopped to talk to us . |
| 15 | He met her in the doorway . |
| 16 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 17 | Pesaro met him in the yard . |
| 18 | " I met him in the toilet at the bus station . " |
| 19 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 20 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
| 21 | As he walked down the stairs it was the old lady who met him in the hall . |
| 22 | After Maltote was rested Corbett and Ranulf met him in the hall . |
| 23 | I met him in the hall — ’ she explained , and was going on to warn Rob to tone down his exuberance when she saw Luke coming towards them . |
| 24 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |
| 25 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 26 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
| 27 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 28 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 29 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 30 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |