Example sentences of "met [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately having the son of the most powerful man in the world did n't seem to do the Eagles much good — they stumbled against Argentina and finally fell flat on their faces when they met Tonga in the Plate quarter-final . |
| 2 | And somebody knew about that telephone call , and met Kemp at the railway station , doubtless informing the taxi-driver who had been hired that he was no longer required . ’ |
| 3 | When Arsenal met Hull in the Cup semi-final in 1930 , and were 2–0 down with ten minutes to go , Chapman 's ordeal on the bench grew to a fever-pitch of intensity . |
| 4 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 5 | They met Colebrooke in the passageway outside , thanked him for his attentions and went down the outside steps into the Tower bailey . |
| 6 | Sally left her bag in the cloakroom and met Edward in the balcony milk bar where he had a strawberry milk shake waiting for her . |
| 7 | She met Dickie by the coconut shy . |
| 8 | He met Kidman on the set of the racing car movie Days of Thunder in Daytona Beach , Florida . |
| 9 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 10 | ‘ I met Elaine in the hospital Outpatients . |
| 11 | No need for secrets , so Mrs Files telephoned her daughter straight away , then told Frank Grimwood who came by with four brace of partridge from yesterday 's let shoot ; who stopped Alec on the tractor with a load of silage behind ; who met Tom in the grainstore ; who found Mary in the estate office when he went in to fill out his time sheet ; who confided in the postman when he came with the afternoon mail ; who amazed Mrs May in Forester 's Cottage when he delivered her Freeman 's Catalogue and a postcard from her son holidaying in Pouket ; who stunned her husband when he came in from the saw mill . |
| 12 | And as the weeks passed , she often met d'Urberville in the garden and began to lose her shyness of him . |
| 13 | He met Pilger in the foyer and they went up to the room . |
| 14 | ( 6 ) John met Mary at the station . |
| 15 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |
| 16 | ‘ My mother met Myrtle at the jazz club , ’ said Sarah . |
| 17 | The project was overseen and produced by Ramuntcho Matta , who has studied classical composition , Indian vocal techniques and the tango , and who met Gysin at the age of 15 . |
| 18 | ON THIS DAY : In 1871 , Stanley met Livingstone on the shore of Lake Tanganyika . |
| 19 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 20 | It was the day she made up her mind that she met Andrew on the Moor . |
| 21 | Afterwards he met Marjorie at the stage door and said , ‘ I want you to know I 'm well pleased with your work . |
| 22 | He was working for an engineering firm and met Herbert in the course of business . |
| 23 | Louise met Diana at the hospice a year ago and again last month . |
| 24 | Next day , Rachel met Jenny at the airport . |
| 25 | You know an and I met Elvis at the chip shop and that stuff , I mean it 's |
| 26 | we met , we met Ashley with the rabbit |
| 27 | I met Morag on the step . |
| 28 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
| 29 | Charles met Robyn off the train from Rummidge with a bottle of champagne in his hand . |
| 30 | I PLAYED for Rangers when they last met Leeds in the quarter-final of the old Fairs Cup back in 1968 . |