Example sentences of "meet [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 2 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 3 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 4 | My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item . |
| 5 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 6 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 7 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 8 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 9 | you met me with an exalted smile |
| 10 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 11 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 12 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 13 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 14 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 15 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 16 | One met them at every turn asking plaintively , ‘ Has edyone god edy andihysterbine tableds ? ’ |
| 17 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 18 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 19 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 20 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 21 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 22 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 23 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 24 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 25 | Who met them on the beaches ? |
| 26 | Sandy was doing a trash all-nighter at the Scala , and Dionne met them with a cocktail shaker . |
| 27 | He met them with a drawn sword , but it was Gwion and Colban and a score of others armed with staves , kitchen knives and clubs . |
| 28 | I met them through an advert . |
| 29 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 30 | Tony was with his mother when she first met them in the street . |