Example sentences of "met [pers pn] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 5 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 6 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 7 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 8 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 9 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |