Example sentences of "i [vb past] meet [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 . |