Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] meet [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 3 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 4 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 5 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 6 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 7 | ‘ Until I met him in the flesh . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 10 | I think , too , if you know your students , if you meet them outside the classroom in activities , then it makes life in the classroom as well . |
| 11 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 12 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 18 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 19 | ‘ My name is Lockwood , ’ I said , when I met him at the gate to his house . |
| 20 | But it explained the 100-franc note I 'd seen at Ma Scamp 's and , come to think of it , the wad of francs I 'd spotted in Bill Stubbly 's wallet when I met him in the bank . |
| 21 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 22 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 23 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 24 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 25 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 26 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |
| 27 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 28 | I always reckon it 's tremendously flattering that viewers want to talk to you when they meet you in the street . |
| 29 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 30 | When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness . |