Example sentences of "meet [pron] for the first time " in BNC.

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1 Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’
2 He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’
3 Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’
4 cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time .
5 I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me .
6 As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time .
7 No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ?
8 Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB .
9 After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy .
10 Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation .
11 She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them .
12 ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners .
13 ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time .
14 Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant .
15 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 .
16 Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me .
17 When you meet someone for the first time , that person can
18 Or , when the , no , when I see , I meet someone for the first time .
19 COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment .
20 Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time .
21 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
22 ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’
23 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 .
24 Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed .
25 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 .
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27 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
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