Example sentences of "meet [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 2 | Gillian arranged to meet her first date in Leicester Square . |
| 3 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 4 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 5 | Juniors ' new deal meets its first deadline |
| 6 | STARTLED is the unsuspecting visitor when he meets his first restaurant bill in one of the chic capitals of French-speaking Africa . |
| 7 | Sydney brings me in contact with Theosophy ; I meet my first love . |
| 8 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |
| 9 | He met his first wife , also called Sarah , at the age of 16 , when she was playing the clarinet in a school orchestra . |
| 10 | But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . |
| 11 | At about this time met his first wife , Mary , an infant teacher at Bradford-on-Avon , who died tragically three years ago after a brain haemorrhage . |
| 12 | At Maryhill Barracks , he met his first instance of bad temper of the night . |