Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first meeting " in BNC.
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1 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
2 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
3 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
4 | When she risked a glance at him his gaze held that patrician mockery , the scathing expression she remembered from their first meeting . |
5 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
6 | She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting . |