Example sentences of "[vb past] met at " 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 | Others I had met at the Commando Training Centre in the Scottish Highlands . |
7 | Indeed , she had respected Angela Morgan for the straightforwardness with which she had tackled the issue when they had met at the lawyer 's office . |
8 | It was at least ten summers past that the Colonel and Miss Danziger had met at The Tamarisks and the Colonel , finding the guest a most informed companion , had asked her assistance in helping him pin-point locations where he was most likely to uncover particular fossils , and attract particular moths . |
9 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
10 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
11 | Some creature he had met at a dinner party recently ( he was , it had to be said , from East Finchley ) had had the nerve to tell him that New York was ‘ more vibrant ’ than Wimbledon . |
12 | Tina and Bruce had met at a farm dance near Gore . |
13 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
14 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
15 | Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier . |
16 | And the man was very pleasant , reminding him that they had met at Adam 's wedding . |
17 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
18 | When they had met at the pub , and boasted of the ease of the despatch of the packet that Michael Holly would carry , he had never thought of a moment such as this . |
19 | Charles and Sarah had met at Ascot in June 1977 when Sarah was licking her wounds after her romance with the Duke of Westminster had ended . |
20 | Indeed Diana 's parents had met at her mother 's coming-out ball in April 1953 , while in her day Raine , Countess Spencer was voted ‘ Deb of the Year ’ . |
21 | Butler postponed publication of the White Paper 's proposals until after the Conservative Party Conference had met at Blackpool in the Autumn of 1958 . |
22 | Chroniclers are undecided as to who took the initiative in joining forces , but all are clear that once the two dukes had met at Northampton , Buckingham became Gloucester 's alter ego . |
23 | The armies arrayed in the fields outside Châteauroux contained many nobles who knew each other well , who had met at tournaments or on pilgrimages , who were cousins or neighbours . |
24 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |
25 | We had met at parties previously , but had carefully avoided one another after exchanging polite hallos . |
26 | Boswell and Johnson took this road to Cruden Bay , in order to fulfil an invitation put in train by a lady they had met at worship in Aberdeen on Sunday morning . |
27 | they had met at a number of police conferences . |
28 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
29 | Harry could not at first believe that the tall and graceful youth beside Ockleton in the picture was the same man he had met at Tyler 's Hard . |
30 | Then she was a Cambridge graduate mother of two , married to a successful young American publisher she had met at Cambridge , the future co-founder of Ink , Ed Victor . |