Example sentences of "they [verb] first met " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked Sergei a lot , had fancied him like mad when they 'd first met , at the house of mutual acquaintances in Moscow . |
| 2 | Avril 's wish came true on April 6 last year , when the couple were married at the parish church in Saltburn where they 'd first met . |
| 3 | She 'd been abominably rude to him since they 'd first met . |
| 4 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 5 | He now knew less about her than the day they had first met in the post office , standing beside one another on the scrubbed hollow boards , waiting for the evening mail van to come . |
| 6 | They had first met on a school paperchase when they strayed off course and returned late after nightfall . |
| 7 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 8 | It was shortly before noon when they reached the highway where they had first met Simon . |
| 9 | It was , for what it 's worth , how they had first met , Rab in a leather jacket , with his milk bottles , his resemblance to Elvis — in Jailhouse Rock — what had made her wild about him . |
| 10 | They had first met fifteen years earlier when a small cadre of SAS men , led by D'Arcy , had visited the Mont Louis Commando Training School close to Andorra for an exchange visit . |
| 11 | Brightly lit as on a stage , she saw the bodies still , more garish , more brightly lit than when they had first met her horrified eyes . |
| 12 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 13 | Pushing the door open , she entered a dim chamber similar to the one in which they had first met Dubois . |
| 14 | When they had first met she thought he was funny , he guessed , though kind too . |
| 15 | No wonder Piers had been so contemptuous of her when they had first met . |
| 16 | Perhaps Piers had been no more than a struggling architect when they had first met , and she had not been content to lead a life of poverty . |
| 17 | She knew immediately that Roman 's mood had changed ; he was looking as grim as when they had first met , but he said nothing as they got into the car . |
| 18 | All the tension and nervousness and anger was released in one swift exit from the man who had dominated , despised and ridiculed her ever since they had first met . |
| 19 | It had been almost three days since they had first met in hell , in the arena where the mysterious traveller had fought his deadly foe . |
| 20 | In the days since they had first met , Hess had unbent a little with Edward Carrington , but his decision not to discuss detail had remained unchanged . |
| 21 | On the contrary , time and again Ashley had found herself thinking about Vitor 's looks , that purring accent , those first moments when they had first met . |
| 22 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 23 | All he had ‘ known ’ when they had first met had been lust , pure and simple . |