Example sentences of "met us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |
| 2 | ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow . |
| 3 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 4 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 5 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 6 | Senior brother , John Isbister , smiling brightly , met us at the pier . |
| 7 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 8 | We were invited to Stuart Johnston 's retirement party in the English Department ( Stuart met us off the ship when we first arrived in NZ , in 1969 ) ; but Val did n't make the party as she tripped in a gutter and pulled her ankle ( she got free treatment for it from the doctor , thanks to NZ 's Accident Compensation scheme ! ) . |
| 9 | these met us Dad and Mike met us in the pub after . |
| 10 | and then er dad and Mike come down in the Sierra and met us in the pub . |
| 11 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 12 | My brother , then on the staff at Eton , met us in the car . |
| 13 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |