Example sentences of "[prep] meeting [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After meeting them , Nez Perce headmen including Lawyer and Timothy dispatched a delegation to St Louis in late summer 1831 to answer claims that ‘ the white man 's religion was better than theirs , and that they would all be lost if they did not embrace it ’ ( Catlin ) . |
| 2 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 3 | When Sabrina 's dossier had arrived on his desk from the FBI Director he was initially sceptical about her abilities but quickly changed his mind after meeting her . |
| 4 | Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night . |
| 5 | He would be moving there not only with Sara and the baby , but with Sara 's mother , their servant Nanny , and a young man called Charles Lloyd , who had fallen under Coleridge 's spell after meeting him in Birmingham . |
| 6 | The Pinneys had become devoted admirers of William Wordsworth after meeting him in London during 1795 , and had soon persuaded their father , John Pretor Pinney , that the little-used family mansion in Dorset should become Wordsworth 's temporary home . |
| 7 | Michael Pearson , 19 , of Leeds , battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub . |
| 8 | The 22-year-old victim was raped in the attacker 's Jaguar car after meeting him while drinking alone at Hatton 's Wine Bar in Holborn , Central London . |
| 9 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 10 | Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk . |
| 11 | Not long after meeting him I went on a bus trip to a rally held in a big place where they had an enormous screen with Billy Graham appearing by satellite . |
| 12 | Each client is matched with a trained volunteer who will give support , advice and companionship to that young person through meeting them regularly . |
| 13 | It enables groups to identify their own needs and to do something about meeting them . |
| 14 | I had never thought about my father , about meeting him , not knowing , and something like this happening , and now I saw it was possible , the desire to laugh became a fearful compulsion . |
| 15 | Although I must confess that I was nervous and wary about meeting him , I had thought that he used his smile as a mask and his laugh as a barrier against what was probably monosyllabic narcissism . |
| 16 | ‘ We took our three grandchildren along with us , they were very excited about meeting her , ’ she added . |
| 17 | Who 's on about meeting us ? |
| 18 | These requirements should be listed in sequence and some time frame established for meeting them . |
| 19 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 20 | Each local authority was required to estimate the needs of primary , secondary and further education in its area , and to submit plans for meeting them to the ministry . |
| 21 | Yet people almost invariably felt better for meeting him privately . |
| 22 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | Except for meeting you , babe , of course . |
| 24 | It set out to predict likely demand for higher education until the end of the century , and to provide guidelines for meeting it . |
| 25 | The review of the requirement and the options for meeting it er culminated in an agreement between the four ministers of defence in December ninety two to re-orientate er the project . |
| 26 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 27 | ‘ I have no intention of meeting her , ’ Jenna began , but he too stood and looked towards the long windows as a car came speedily to the house . |
| 28 | Such clear-cut options rarely exist in practical politics , but the intractability of many rural problems and the growing cost of meeting them make clear-cut decisions necessary . |
| 29 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |
| 30 | Either they can maintain their expectations and seek new ways of meeting them . |