Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 2 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 3 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 4 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 5 | On the return journey from Fairbanks to Edmonton I enjoyed a two-day stopover in Whitehorse where the manager of the new cinema , whom I had met on the way north , looked me up . |
| 6 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 7 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 8 | Others I had met at the Commando Training Centre in the Scottish Highlands . |
| 9 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 10 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 11 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 12 | This was the Old Red I had heard about , and not the man I had met in the subway . |
| 13 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |
| 14 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 15 | One of her closest allies and friends in the last years of her life was Jane Clifford , whom she had met during the Platt Hall venture and to whom she now offered a new job as historical adviser . |
| 16 | The couple she had met as the Corduroys , Ken and Louise , were holding plates and looking round for somewhere to sit . |
| 17 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 18 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 19 | Now there was longing and bitterness in his voice and she caught a glimpse of the man she had met on the boat . |
| 20 | Instead she read us letters from a boy she had met in the holidays . |
| 21 | That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces . |
| 22 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 23 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 24 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 25 | Indeed , she had respected Angela Morgan for the straightforwardness with which she had tackled the issue when they had met at the lawyer 's office . |
| 26 | When they had met at the pub , and boasted of the ease of the despatch of the packet that Michael Holly would carry , he had never thought of a moment such as this . |
| 27 | But her natural good manners got the better of her and she found herself saying ‘ good evening ’ and reminding Penelope that they had met at the vicarage . |
| 28 | They had met at the close mouth as she was inserting her key into the heavy outer door . |
| 29 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 30 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |