Example sentences of "i met [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 2 | Four weeks ago I met every single G P in my constituency in a meeting . |
| 3 | So I met no one on the riverside path , soft-cushioned underfoot with years of leafmould . |
| 4 | I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee . |
| 5 | On my way through the village I met a member of the French Commando . |
| 6 | ‘ In January , ’ she said hesitantly , ‘ I met a man , a salesman who made business trips to Cologne from this country . ’ |
| 7 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 8 | The other day I met a bloke |
| 9 | And , later that evening , I met a black British journalist who agrees . |
| 10 | Back at the anchor vantage point , I met a dreamy-eyed tramp-like man of about fifty . |
| 11 | I met a lot of people at my parents ' house , including many people of real ability , and that I was always grateful for . |
| 12 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 13 | I remembered what you 'd said about settling down , and as it happened I met a very nice young man from Berlin , a train driver . |
| 14 | ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit . |
| 15 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 16 | ‘ I met a man at Machu Picchu who was a little bit Inca . |
| 17 | ‘ I left the States and was travelling in Italy when I met a photographer . |
| 18 | I met a boy in his mid-twenties , from Kentucky , who had come to New York to set up as a dentist . |
| 19 | ‘ Just recently I met a woman in somebody else 's house and she said , ‘ I 'm sure I 've known you before ’ . |
| 20 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 21 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 22 | I met a lad wheeling a barrow in the village street . |
| 23 | I met a man in the glen who seemed to know every spot , and gave me the Gaelic names of all the corries . |
| 24 | As luck would have it , I met a retired teacher walking through the grounds . |
| 25 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 26 | In a visit in the spring of 1987 , I met a teacher who confided that the externally-imposed testing system pre-empted the use of 30% of her total professional time , and that her own independent judgements ( which she saw as more valuable and inseparable from her natural teaching style ) occupied a further 20–25% of the time . |
| 27 | During one of the hold-ups in play in the Centenary Test at Lord 's in 1980 , I met a splendid young man ( then aged about 14 ) from Yorkshire , who showed me his foolscap-size autograph book , beautifully kept , with separate pages for each country and county , adorned with photographs , magazine pictures , statistics and coloured inks . |
| 28 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 29 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 30 | Recently I met a speechreader who was struggling to understand a lady who spoke English with a French accent . |