Example sentences of "first met [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Ironically , he admired Docherty when they first met during the ‘ mini-world cup ’ in Brazil in 1972 .
2 Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night .
3 Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke .
4 Jay had felt fleeting sexual desire when they first met in the corridor where she worked , a tumbledown rats ' nest in East London .
5 When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components :
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