Example sentences of "had meet in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 2 | Certainly it would not have been a respectable person , such as Hilbert 's gardener or cleaner , but most likely some unemployed derelict Adam had met in a pub . |
| 3 | They had met in a railway carriage in the third year of the war . |
| 4 | Two men had met in a London flat : customer and supplier . |
| 5 | It was the day following Ari 's first test and Leila , Ari and Roirbak had met in the canteen . |
| 6 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 7 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 8 | Day and Tidbury had met in the toilet . |
| 9 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 10 | They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business . |
| 11 | This was the Old Red I had heard about , and not the man I had met in the subway . |
| 12 | It was Nicholson , the young clergyman he had met in the Lorton Valley , shy , the unsuccessful wooer of Miss Skelton , poorly paid , but on several occasions a most useful conversational refuge for the restless Colonel . |
| 13 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |
| 14 | Instead she read us letters from a boy she had met in the holidays . |
| 15 | She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box . |
| 16 | That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces . |
| 17 | All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers . |
| 18 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |