Example sentences of "i have [adv] met " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just met this medium — how could she have known this ? ’ |
| 2 | Olomouc has a population of about a hundred thousand but it 's a small town : I kept bumping into people I 'd already met , and Irena appeared to know everybody . |
| 3 | I 'd never met people like this before and really did not know what to make of them . |
| 4 | But I 'd never met anyone quite like her before , you see . |
| 5 | For instance , Jim Pugh , our keyboard player , wrote three songs on the album , two with our producer Dennis Walker , and one with a friend I 'd never met before . |
| 6 | I 'd never met gangrene before . |
| 7 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 8 | . Erm but then we slept under every hedge , I think , along the south coast , till we lost our machine guns , collected anti-tank guns , and eventually were transferred to the Royal Artillery , but still with this county pride of Devon , which I 'd never met before . |
| 9 | I 'd never met an off-worlder who knew where they were , or cared . |
| 10 | I 'd never met him , but I 'd heard him speak once , and there was no doubt that he could move people . |
| 11 | I 'd never met anyone so ambitious and as single-minded . |
| 12 | I 'd never met anyone like you , and the fact that there was a rumour that you were newly in mourning for your father just added to the mystique , because I was young enough to find tragedy romantic . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I just wish to God I 'd never met you ! ’ |
| 14 | There was one of a young man in her class that I 'd never met but … wait a minute ! ’ |
| 15 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 16 | ‘ I wish to God I 'd never met you , ’ she whispered hoarsely . |
| 17 | Oh God I can st I can still remember Auntie Edie and her mouth full of rotten teeth , oh dear , whom I 'd never met before |
| 18 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 19 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 20 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The first time I really took Jo on board was before I 'd ever met her . |
| 24 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |
| 25 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 26 | I heard rapping at the window beside my bed and another young woman whom I had n't met was standing on the window ledge of the hotel . |
| 27 | I had n't met Filmer 's eyes all day ; had been careful not to ; and it seemed to me that his attention had been exclusively focused upon what he had now achieved , a visiting-terms acquaintanceship with Mercer Lorrimore . |
| 28 | Maybe I 'm being a bit more tolerant towards him than I would be if I had n't met him . |
| 29 | Although I had n't met him before , like many would-be adventurers I 'd read a lot about his life and experiences . |
| 30 | That is perhaps why I did n't hear the name of a tall , dark-haired handsome girl whom I had n't met before . |