Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] met [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 2 | ‘ I had never met James alive , so how could I recognise him in death ? |
| 3 | I had never met David Waite and did n't know what he thought . |
| 4 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
| 5 | I 've never met Michael Allison so er I 'm sure you 're absolutely right , I shall er wait and find out . |
| 6 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 7 | I 've never met Scorelord so I ca n't say , but I 'm 6′4″ , and Miss Whipple 's about a foot shorter than she was this morning . |
| 8 | So far I 've only met Pickerage . ’ |
| 9 | Days ago Carla , 24 , said : ‘ I have only met Mick Jagger once and that was in New York two years ago . ’ |
| 10 | Do you know this is my daughter , you 've never met Tracy before have you ? |
| 11 | We went over my sister-in-law 's erm I you , you 've never met Joe have you , my brother ? |
| 12 | ‘ Because you 've never met Luke . |
| 13 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 14 | Hume 's wife sued , claiming that she had never met Setty , let alone had an affair with or a child by him . |
| 15 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 16 | She had never met Jack Butler but she had seen him racing , and on television of course . |
| 17 | Lindsey sighed heavily , wishing she had never met Niall Grant , and knew that even that was n't true . |
| 18 | To our church came such spiritual giants as Rev Reginald Barlett of Samoa , and the South Seas , Miss Mabel Shaw of Mbershi , whose adopted daughter is helping with modern Zambia , a housewoman from Dr Ida Scudder 's hospital at Velore , central India and a missionary from China who knew about the conditions there and in Hong Kong , and who had also met Toyohiko Kagawa of Japan and knew that , in very truth , this son of a Geisha and who knows who , was a world figure , now pleading at the League of Nations for more attention to World Health than to armaments . |
| 19 | Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem " Loy " ( who had earlier met Shevardnadze ) , when Baker reportedly said that Angola 's moves towards multiparty democracy had removed the last obstacle to US endorsement of a peace settlement . |
| 20 | You have already met H.C.F. work . |
| 21 | The Krays were jailed for life in ( 1969 ) nineteen sixty nine , but their young fans have written to them , and one has even met Reggie in prison . |
| 22 | We have already met Lyamshin , the member of the quintet whose party act is to mimic women in labour and new-born babies . |
| 23 | But if so they 've never met Enya and the Ryans . |
| 24 | They had both met Conchis once or twice then , but not since the school had re-started in 1949 . |
| 25 | He has never met Beryl , said to be Everthorpe 's second wife , and formerly his secretary . |
| 26 | He had visited the studio on and off through his time with Vanessa — he 'd even met Martine there on two occasions when her husband had cancelled a Luxembourg trip and she 'd been too heated to miss a liaison — but it was charmless and cheerless , and he 'd returned happily to the house in Wimpole Mews . |
| 27 | He said he 'd just met Mr Datchery . |
| 28 | Bill Goody asked Michael if he 'd ever met God himself . |
| 29 | He 'd only met Bogie and I — over in the pub , the Dirty Duck , for about half an hour when he insisted on taking me round to Shakespeare 's birthplace . |
| 30 | He 'd never met Daniele Miletti , never seen him , never heard of him . |