Example sentences of "[vb past] met in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 5 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |