Example sentences of "[vb past] met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 2 | The women began to congregate and we rose to greet each other , even though we 'd met at breakfast less than an hour ago . |
| 3 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 4 | ‘ Mother said they 'd met at university — ’ frowned Meredith . |
| 5 | While she recognised the figure of her cousin 's fiancé , whom she 'd met at their engagement party , the man standing beside him was a complete stranger . |
| 6 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 7 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 8 | The image did n't really spring into life , rather vague , figure behind glass , partly Julia , partly the girl he 'd met on holiday . |
| 9 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 10 | Evening spent in a bar at a pre-arranged ‘ reunion ’ of everybody who 'd met on route . |
| 11 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 12 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 13 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 14 | The only representative of the species I 'd met till then had been Jean Carmichael , with her hairy legs , head for hard liquor , and golden heart . |
| 15 | He visited them in Egypt , accompanied by a girl he 'd met in a bar , who proved to be a lesbian . |
| 16 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 17 | On the other side of the road lived another Brit I 'd met in France . |
| 18 | His first marriage had failed and , although his second , to a Syrian woman he 'd met in Beirut , sounded disorganized , he talked fondly of his son Tariq . |
| 19 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 20 | Suddenly I was back in the presence of the unpredictable figure I 'd met in the library at Easterness that first night , and as uncertain now as then . |
| 21 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 22 | The memory was triggered by talk of a young woman I had met on one trip who showed me Dyrhólæy and the sea pinnacles of Reynisdrangar near Vik . |
| 23 | Ernest and he had met on the golf links and both shared a love of collecting antiques . |
| 24 | After his return Mozart 's compositions included experiments with keyboard concerto writing in the form of arrangements of sonata movements of works by some of the composers he had met on his journeys ( Honnauer , Eckard etc ) ( 8 ) . |
| 25 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 26 | On the return journey from Fairbanks to Edmonton I enjoyed a two-day stopover in Whitehorse where the manager of the new cinema , whom I had met on the way north , looked me up . |
| 27 | A committee had already been formed and had met on Friday 14 January 1887 to consider proposed new premises in Edenderry . |
| 28 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 29 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 30 | ‘ I read in the paper the other day that two people had met on the steps of St Paul 's Cathedral after fifty years or something . |