Example sentences of "at [pron] first meeting " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roughs , based on my general knowledge of the subject , were presented at my first meeting with the ‘ team ’ and accepted in principle . |
| 2 | At their first meetings in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 each had at once recognized in the other a man of extraordinary abilities . |
| 3 | Macmillan established a personal relationship almost at once with Kennedy at their first meeting at Key West in March 1961 ; and Watkinson renewed the agreement on ‘ interdependence ’ during his visit to the States in May , during which prospects of future Anglo-American collaborative projects were optimistically discussed . |
| 4 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 5 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 6 | In June 1968 , at their first meeting , Ceauşescu shrewdly let a twenty minute courtesy call run on for a flattering two and a quarter hours . |
| 7 | He always thanked anyone who did , she noticed , and felt a return of the respect he had inspired in her at their first meeting . |
| 8 | She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting . |
| 9 | At their first meeting , Berenson is described as ‘ a gentleman with a reddish beard ’ ; apologising for turning up at the artist 's studio unannounced , he offered the excuse that he was ‘ the person who bought all your pictures from Torrini ’ ( an antique dealer with whom Joni placed his first works for sale ) . |
| 10 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 11 | He and Shinwell had told the Central Authority at their first meeting in September 1947 that , while general price rises could be ruled out , they were prepared to look at the possibility of controlling demand at peak times by differentially higher prices for peak use or by mechanical load-restricting devices . |
| 12 | At their first meeting with students likely to be taking their class , most teachers explain how the class will work ( e.g. structure and content of syllabus , sequence of topics , suggested reading for each topic , times and place of meetings , etc . ) . |
| 13 | It would , he had informed her at their first meeting , be mostly a matter of watching and listening for the moment . |
| 14 | Images flickered across the disordered screen of her mind — Rune provocatively , dominantly angry at their first meeting ; Rune , eyes shuttered , playing ‘ her ’ song ; Rune , mouth tender , eyes laughing as he had watched the children playing at the funfair in Tivoli ; Rune , seeking her out at her hotel , deliberately drawing her into his life ; Rune , his blond head bent , handling her damaged foot with such tenderness ; Rune … |
| 15 | The Officer Board for 1993–95 was elected by the Executive Committee at their first meeting on Monday , 26th April 1993 . |
| 16 | ‘ At their first meeting together , Enya was pleasantly surprised to discover that Princess Diana just loves her music , ’ said a source close to Enya . |
| 17 | At their first meeting after the blitz the General Purposes Committee recommended the setting up of a City Redevelopment Committee to consider ‘ the steps which it will be desirable for the municipality to take to secure a worthy replanning and redevelopment of the city ’ . |
| 18 | It is perhaps worth mentioning and passing on through SMT that the Partnership Sub Committee of the National Committee discussed this at their first meeting and made the following points ( reflected in the Minute of SCAC 19th March 1991 ) . |
| 19 | The dark , brooding look about him , so daunting at their first meeting , was missing these days , replaced by a zest and animation she knew must have been the norm for Penry Vaughan before his marriage — or before his divorce , she corrected herself . |
| 20 | AT THEIR first meeting , Bill Clinton and John Major were clearly at pains to avoid a row . |
| 21 | There is a definite spark between Vronsky and Anna at their first meeting and they are affected by each other even if it is just subconsciously . |
| 22 | THE CABINET agreed , at its first meeting since the election , to give priority to reintroducing legislation to curb bogus refugees . |
| 23 | The work of the council is in the main carried out in committees of the council which are set up by the council usually at its first meeting after the election is over . |
| 24 | Fifteen MPs were appointed to the Committee , and Hall was elected chairman at its first meeting on 30th May . |
| 25 | Its aim , outlined at its first meeting on 17 December 1940 , was ‘ to agree on the Railway Shops and how much reserve capacity could be allowed to the various Supply Departments . ’ |
| 26 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 27 | The political pressures reinforcing this attitude were powerful , and Shinwell , with his eye on the working class cost of living , told the Central Authority at its first meeting that they should not charge prices higher than costs ( without , however , specifying how this was to be interpreted ) . |
| 28 | The national council at its first meeting on 21 November 1815 proclaimed Miloš as ‘ supreme knez and leader of the Serbian people ’ . |
| 29 | The Analytical Society , their pressure group for reform , was Bromhead 's suggestion , mooted at a gathering in his lodgings in 1812 , and he read a paper ‘ On Notation ’ at its first meeting . |
| 30 | At its first meeting , this had been essentially a group of provincial enthusiasts ; but they were soon brought within the fold of the established Church Scientific , the ‘ gentlemen of science ’ mostly from Cambridge , who took upon themselves the direction of the efforts of the provincial amateurs . |