Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] introduced to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 2 | She 'd been introduced to the others initially as a friend . |
| 3 | Don Mosey , then with The Daily Mail , summed up Yardley 's captaincy : ( He ) had been introduced to Yorkshire cricket in the mid-Thirties when the side , individually and collectively , would have died for the cause . |
| 4 | He himself was still quietly married to a girl he had been introduced to at high school . |
| 5 | She and her mother , the Countess of Montijo , had been introduced to Louis-Napoleon by means of their acquaintanceship with Princess Mathilde , an introduction which the latter certainly lived to regret . |
| 6 | Gedge , instead , had been introduced to the dubious charms of ELP , Yes and Genesis by Dave Fielding , who had in turn been influenced by his older brother . |
| 7 | It had been introduced to Rome a century before Constantine . |
| 8 | The nurse who had been looking after Julie escorted her to theatre and stayed with her until she had been introduced to the theatre nurse . |
| 9 | We know that Monotypes had been introduced to R. & R. Clark 's , as early as 1901 or 1902 . |
| 10 | After she had been introduced to him he had sent her to get him a cup of coffee , but not before patting her behind . |
| 11 | The United States had been introduced to the combined system by Laurent Clerc , a deaf and dumb immigrant and former pupil of the Abbe de l'Epee . |
| 12 | I therefore contacted a literary agent , Al Zuckerman , who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague . |
| 13 | There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission . |
| 14 | She turned pointedly to the man on her other side , who had been introduced to her as Harry . |
| 15 | A couple of months earlier , Buhler had been introduced to Coleman by Marshall Lee Miller in Washington , and since then had been urging Shaughnessy to talk to Coleman because he had ‘ a great deal of interesting information concerning the crash of Flight 103 ’ . |
| 16 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 17 | Indeed , she had dined in the Hotel the night before and had been introduced to her local MP , Sir Ralph Grunte . |
| 18 | Grunte had taken him earlier in the year to a lunch at the Connaught Rooms where he ( Malcolm ) had been introduced to Lady Porter . |
| 19 | She had been introduced to Norman Lamont ( very sexy ) and afterwards Charles had been wonderful , guiding her from cab to restaurant , steering her around the menu ( ‘ the salt cod is quite delicious ’ ) , plying her with Vinho Verde and a glass of Setubal . |
| 20 | There was a young woman there , an attractive girl he guessed at twenty-two , who had been introduced to him as Suzanne Simonis . |
| 21 | But it was produced by Peter Rogers , directed by Gerald Thomas and in addition to Ken and Lance Percival , there was also Leslie Phillips and Eric Barker ( returning to the team after Carry On Sergeant ) , Sid James and Liz Frazer , who had been introduced to the series in Carry on Regardless and would be as much part of the set-up as Ken himself . |
| 22 | Leith tried to remember his name , recalled that he had been introduced to her as Travis something or other , checked that Rosemary did not appear under stress , and left them to it . |
| 23 | Mr Mackie , who now lives in Inverurie , said he had dabbled with soft drugs as a teenager in London and had been introduced to them again by Murray and his brother , David Murray , when he went to work at Kenway . |