Example sentences of "and meet the " in BNC.

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1 After the ceremony Sir Michael and Lady Graydon circulated amongst the guests and met the residents before partaking of an excellent buffet lunch provided by RAF Cottesmore — another example of the support given by the serving RAF .
2 On a return visit to Fettes , Arthur Ramsey stayed with one of the housemasters and met the sister Agnes Wilson , who kept house there .
3 Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes .
4 When the Housing Corporation refused to contribute to the cost of these features , the HBC relaxed its general policy of contributing only 50 per cent of the cost of eligible items and met the full cost .
5 Washington , he said , stood by its commitment to overcome the division of Europe , Germany and Berlin , but this had to come about in a gradual process which satisfied German aspirations and met the ‘ legitimate interests ’ of all concerned .
6 Then she disappeared , until Jane opened the airing cupboard and met the unblinking gaze of Fluff and Titch side by side on the blankets .
7 As they began to climb , Jinny looked back towards the sofa and met the boy 's eyes again .
8 The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low , brooding barns .
9 In October of that year , Hickson and Jacques joined forces and met the Director of Education over the possibility of a combined approach to the development of adult education which would reflect the recommendations of Circular 1444 .
10 Two days after seeing my surgeon and exactly a week before going into hospital , aided by my wife , I crawled up to London and met the hero of the book .
11 ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham .
12 Anyhow he went away and met the lady who became his wife in London , I believe , and they had a child .
13 The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing .
14 The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham .
15 Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’
16 It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith .
17 Mr Brownlow came in , took off his gloves and met the Minister for Trade and Industry , the Rt .
18 A few other Labour MPs lent support , and met the same fate — notably Charles Trevelyan , last of the surviving ex-UDC Liberals in the Parliamentary Party .
19 He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements .
20 Faced with either crashing into the heavy gatepost or jumping the dark gaping ditch off far too short a stride , Hullabaloo tried to put in an extra stride and met the obstacle entirely wrong .
21 I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God .
22 It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering .
23 If we returned to the road with our panniers full of food and met the Germans , they would probably stop and search us .
24 At Count Begouen 's Pyrenean château she saw the cave art nearby and met the Abbé Breuil .
25 Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it .
26 We pulled over and met the two drivers .
27 Near Hawthornden Castle is Ben Jonson 's Tree ; the newly appointed Poet Laureate , Ben Jonson walked from London to Hawthornden in 1618 and met the Poet Drummond under this particular tree .
28 We had tea with him and his wife and met the three other new boys and their parents : Harry Phillimore , small , dark-haired and bespectacled ; Ronnie Chance , slim , blond and diffident ; and Desmond Parsons , a tall , good-looking boy .
29 They both looked round , and met the startled eyes of Mrs Pigdon , the landlady .
30 Lord Carrington travelled again to Belgrade on Nov. 22 , and met the UN special envoy to Yugoslavia , former US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance .
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