Example sentences of "have never met " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compelled by duty and curiosity , Daniel flies to a remote Arizona suburb to return the body to the stepmother and half-brother he has never met . |
| 2 | He has never met Beryl , said to be Everthorpe 's second wife , and formerly his secretary . |
| 3 | Although there will be plenty of examples of his deep love of women , not merely for their sexual attraction but for their companionship , conversation and intelligence , he can be struck by an infatuation for women he has never met . |
| 4 | He first met Ms Margaret Maughan , a person and ‘ lifelong fan ’ , in 1967 and they embarked upon ‘ an eight-year affair ’ which culminated in the birth in 1976 of one ‘ James ’ whom Mr Milligan ‘ has never met ’ even though he is said to have ‘ admitted ’ to newspaper reporters : ‘ It 's all true . |
| 5 | He proudly declares that he has never met a Royal . |
| 6 | He has never met any of them . |
| 7 | She is then obliged , under the terms of his will , to deal with his lawyer , Charlie Leveque , whom she has never met but loathes on principle . |
| 8 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 9 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 10 | However , the man penning the ferocious press releases from his antiques shop in Flebridge , Sussex , has never met Mrs W or any of her children , has never been to Orkney and until last October felt ‘ dreadful revulsion ’ for the alleged child abusers in Orkney . |
| 11 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
| 12 | Ah , Brian , Brian , David has never met you . |
| 13 | I 'd never met people like this before and really did not know what to make of them . |
| 14 | But I 'd never met anyone quite like her before , you see . |
| 15 | She 'd never met such a man . |
| 16 | Tommy had to make it up , because he 'd never met Donald before . |
| 17 | ‘ So we 'd never met , you see . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 20 | I 'd never met gangrene before . |
| 21 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 22 | . 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 . |
| 23 | They 'd never met before . |
| 24 | The depth of semi-recognition , even though they 'd never met , was puzzling and disturbing . |
| 25 | I 'd never met an off-worlder who knew where they were , or cared . |
| 26 | She just wished she 'd never met him . |
| 27 | He says he did a deal with a man in a pub , a man whose name he ca n't remember and he 'd never met before . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd never met him , but I 'd heard him speak once , and there was no doubt that he could move people . |
| 29 | Once a man she 'd never met before , a man called Peter who did n't seem to have a wife , kept dancing with her in the Godsons ' house , holding her very close , in a way that quite upset her and yet was pleasurable . |
| 30 | I 'd never met anyone so ambitious and as single-minded . |