Example sentences of "meet [pron] first " 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 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 3 | Gillian arranged to meet her first date in Leicester Square . |
| 4 | I 've arranged for you to meet him first . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Are n't we meant to meet everybody first ? ’ |
| 6 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Juniors ' new deal meets its first deadline |
| 10 | But how could I , without meeting you first ? ’ |
| 11 | Lorton had met him first in Beirut where he ran a short-lived but lucrative business selling the same medical supplies to more than one purchaser . |
| 12 | STARTLED is the unsuspecting visitor when he meets his first restaurant bill in one of the chic capitals of French-speaking Africa . |
| 13 | Sydney brings me in contact with Theosophy ; I meet my first love . |
| 14 | Hemmed in between sea and mountains , with water before them and Pharaoh 's forces at their backs , the people of Israel meet their first big test of faith — and they panic . |
| 15 | ‘ You meet him first — this evening at his hotel . |
| 16 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 17 | I met him first in the Lubyanka , that brick lump on Manchester 's Oxford Road that serves as home to the BMC . |
| 18 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 19 | The prize was a week 's holiday in neighbouring Ibiza — Toni met his first hippies there , liked their communal lifestyle better than the bank , and did n't go back . |
| 20 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |
| 21 | Shaughnessy agreed , and on 1 November 1990 , met his first — ; and so far his only — independent witness for dinner it the Hyde Park hotel . |
| 22 | He met his first wife , also called Sarah , at the age of 16 , when she was playing the clarinet in a school orchestra . |
| 23 | At Maryhill Barracks , he met his first instance of bad temper of the night . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |