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Example sentences for "met him"

  • I met him at the gate," retorted Justice Hare, turning his attention upon Mr. Carlyle.

  • I went over there one day, just for a spree, and I met him at a pastrycook's.

  • He got acquainted with some friends of mine, and at their house I met him.

  • I met him at Swainson," doggedly answered Afy.

  • I met him in the street yesterday with his bride, and he looked as if he would rather be hanged than receive my congratulations: I passed without seeming to have seen them.

  • About twelve miles from Brandon they met him at midnight with a team of horses and a number of men, all of whom were armed.

  • I met him with my hand upraised to hush him, and led him gently to the bedside.

  • He never looked at me when I met him, but always at the ground, without seeming to be aware of my existence.

  • He obeyed instantly; but the Emperor, thinking he did not come quickly enough, met him half-way from his barracks.

  • I met him accidentally at Kingston, where there was a dinner-party and he was among the guests.

  • And then most unhappily I met him by chance, and--and I gave him my hand and forgave him, and even called him by his Christian name as I had been accustomed to do.

  • He's going to the dogs, I think, and I'm sorry I met him.

  • When passers-by met him on the pavement he did his best to look and walk in a leisurely way, for he fancied they were reading his secret in the very swing of his shoulders.

  • Whenever he met him at Nana's she would explain reasonably enough that she did not wish to turn him out of doors like a dog after all he had spent on her.

  • And I met him yesterday, and he looks the other way!

  • How could he speak to me as he did that day when I met him on the hill, and again when I went just to save him an annoyance?

  • We met him a few evenings before at the Boscobels', at dinner.

  • I met him yesterday on the Hill; he came up just as I was looking out for Alfred with the glass, and I asked him if he wouldn't come and say good-bye to mother this afternoon.

  • The whole fleet, a compliment due only to royalty, met him in full array, and the young Ptolemy showed wonderful kindness to him, appointing him lodging and diet in the palace, where no foreign commander before him had been received.

  • I met him sort of casual this second time.

  • Oh, I was just rememberin' how he looked out for number one the first--no, the second time I met him.

  • You see I met him a fore he came here to live at all.

  • At last my brother arrived; he looked pale and unwell; I met him at the door.

  • I met him, the other day, up the road, with his cane and dog, and saluted him; he did not return my salutation.

  • The stranger was not at home; returning the next day, however, I met him at the door as he was about to enter; he shook me warmly by the hand.

  • He had been about three months in London when I met him in the coffee-room, and the two elderly gentlemen in his company were his guardians.

  • He reminded me, when I met him, that he had always predicted I would get along in life.

  • Though he was in the class above me, I met him frequently at a club to which I had the honour to belong, then a suite of rooms over a shop furnished with a pool and a billiard table, easy-chairs and a bar.

  • And I told you, I believe, that I met him once at Mr. Kyme's.

  • Then right so he passed throughout them, and beyond the chapel yard there met him a fair damosel, and said, Sir Launcelot, leave that sword behind thee, or thou wilt die for it.

  • And therewithal, Sir Uwaine gat his spear in his hand and rode toward Sir Launcelot, and Sir Launcelot knew him well, and so he met him on the plain, and gave him such a buffet that he was astonied, that long he wist not where he was.

  • And then said Sir Tristram to Sir Lamorak: I require you if ye hap to meet with Sir Palomides, say him that he shall find me at the same well where I met him, and there I, Sir Tristram, shall prove whether he be better knight than I.

  • Brooke was here, and we met him in the Close.

  • Met him abroad, I suppose--tinkering round, as he does.

  • Didn't I tell you I met him when I went out to Brindisi to see Nevile off--met him on a steamer, with a pretty woman?

  • Great sport if we met him now--you, who look like lunching at the Savoy or somewhere, and he like a fakir!

  • The reader will hear of him in good time; I will only mention here that when I met him in Spain, he stood me out that I had never known him; his self-love prompted this very contemptible lie.

  • Twenty-five years afterwards I met him in Spain, a cadet in the king's body-guard.

  • I met him at Versailles ten years afterwards.

  • Mary, who had been fastening the bolts inside, met him in the doorway.

  • Mary, arriving unexpectedly at the house in Glammis Square, met him in the hall as she entered: he had just taken leave of Sepia, who was going up the stair at the moment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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