Example sentences of "met [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 2 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 3 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 4 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 5 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 6 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 7 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 8 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 9 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 10 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 11 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 12 | Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States . |
| 13 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 14 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 15 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've met him at a couple of PFA functions and when it was my testimonial he sent some things down to be raffled . |
| 17 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
| 18 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 19 | Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings . |
| 20 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 21 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 22 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 23 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 24 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 25 | Ashi had met him during the height of the oil boom , when the late Shah was pouring the country 's new-found wealth into creating an entire new infrastructure for a land that had hardly changed since biblical times . |
| 26 | He taught at the College of Further Education a few miles from Spaxton ; she had met him through a rambling club . |
| 27 | Had I met him in the grocer 's , I 'd probably have thought him ‘ nice ’ as well . |
| 28 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 29 | She had met him in the street . |
| 30 | She had met him in the Coupole the night before when she was sitting with her friends from the atelier , and he 'd known one of them and come over . |