Example sentences of "have met before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a high proportion of residents in Homes are frail , you may have to assist with nursing care and may come across conditions which you may not have met before in elderly people . |
| 2 | Part 1 uses a listening or reading text to revise grammar that students will probably have met before . |
| 3 | We are left talking to each other almost as if we had met before . |
| 4 | It was as though they had met before , these two , on some other plain or in some other desert , Assessing and being assessed , wanting and being wanted , probing and being probed , they began ( without intending it ) a long , slow dance of self recognition , silently accusing each other , wordlessly accusing themselves . |
| 5 | Quite unlike the dry , academic , sexless lady consultants he had met before . |
| 6 | Jobs , as well as grants , were on offer , and people whom Lowe had met before started working there . |
| 7 | When Ewen Mackay suggested that they had met before , I had thought that the other man had countered with a faintly wary look . |
| 8 | She was n't sure if he would come , but it never occurred to her not to go to the rock where they had met before . |
| 9 | But again , there was that odd feeling that they had met before . |
| 10 | To make matters worse , there was a cast to his expression and a pitch to his voice which Harry found strangely familiar , as if , inconceivable though he knew it to be , they had met before . |
| 11 | He was so unlike any of the people I had met before … ’ |
| 12 | Among them was Vitor , standing with the Dalgety executive whom she had met before . |
| 13 | It seems as if they 've met before ; ’ |
| 14 | Cowley said , ‘ We 've met before . ’ |
| 15 | Still more mystified , Connor replied , ‘ Since you 're feeling generous , I 'll take a half-pint of our best bitter … but if we 've met before , I have to admit I do n't remember the occasion . ’ |
| 16 | We 've met before , have n't we ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But we 've met before , have n't we , Mr Scott ? ’ |
| 18 | Stella said , ‘ You sound as if you 've met before . ’ |
| 19 | We 've , we 've met before at |
| 20 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've met before , I think . |
| 22 | Where problems do arise over cutting out narrow strips — which we have met before — it is sometimes best to cut in the background piecemeal , gluing in each subsection of background separately as you go along . |
| 23 | These people , the pubescent schoolkid , the 45-year-old English professor , the dim college girl , we have met before , and we might be pleased to see them again , but neither they nor their predicaments quite justify so uncritical a veneration . |
| 24 | We have met before . |
| 25 | ‘ We have met before , I think , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ We have met before , I think , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Pressure refers to the subjective corollaries that we have met before : rush , confusion , uncertainty and anxiety . |
| 28 | And , unless you are that raving genius we have met before , you would do well to analyse exactly what it is your detective novel is about before you embark on detailed plotting , let alone the actual writing . |
| 29 | We have met before — and we have nothing more to say to one another . |
| 30 | ‘ We have met before ? ’ |