Example sentences of "met john " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |
| 2 | Doyle and Hearn , former directors of the WPBSA , were in possession of the documents in Glasgow three weeks ago when they met John Virgo , the WPBSA 's chairman , at an informal meeting . |
| 3 | Hanns Ebensten , who met John when he was about fourteen and quickly became his best friend , first heard of him from one of John 's fellow pupils , Inge May , who with her mother was a lodger at the Ebensten home ( they were all German refugees ) . |
| 4 | When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank . |
| 5 | Then they met John walking home through Battersea , South London . |
| 6 | In 1949 , the thirty-eight-year old Cooper met John Richardson , a twenty-five-year old art historian . |
| 7 | just as I was ready to leave for England I met John Leinster . " |
| 8 | Anne still met John Redmond occasionally , and tried to keep up with world affairs so that she could hold her own when talking to him . |
| 9 | Joe met John Redmond and arranged to go with him to Victor 's Academy and both enjoyed meeting and talking as much as the dancing instruction . |
| 10 | She was running back home when she turned a corner and met John pushing a handcart full of building materials . |
| 11 | She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen . |
| 12 | You could get an extension , if you asked permission , on Saturday nights for a special occasion such as a dance , and then I met John at the carnival in Middleton . |
| 13 | She met John Ruskin [ q.v. ] , whose writings greatly influenced her ; also William Morris [ q.v. ] , who inspired her ideas of craft ideology . |
| 14 | At Campbell Island he met John Biscoe [ q.v. ] , who was on a similar search for land in the Antarctic . |
| 15 | In January 1839 , at Campbell Island , he met John Balleny [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | There she met John Rogers Herbert [ q.v. ] , a leading Royal Academician , who gave her valuable advice . |
| 17 | And then well I met John , when I was in there , started going out with him , and er as I say when you get married in there you had to leave , so this , this was the next job they offered me . |
| 18 | But when they met John was besotted with somebody else , and when that finished they were already close friends . |
| 19 | Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John . |
| 20 | I was told , back in those days , that he had built a working steam model of the locomotive to go with the coaches , but this must have left the district some years earlier , as my father never saw it , and never met John Griffiths , though he knew of Ernest from about 1910 , having started his articles in that office . |
| 21 | Figure back three weeks if you want to know what day I first met John Russell . |
| 22 | In London she met John Weston , who owned the Ventura art gallery , which took most of Gerald Wingfield 's work . |
| 23 | ‘ Then when I met John Leguizamo , we clicked so well that they used to call us Laurel and Hardy . |
| 24 | The first time she met John Major he was wearing a brown suit and a pair of NHS specs . |