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Encountered

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Past of encounter

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His task will be similar to the one Edberg encountered with Federer, helping him to understand he would have to accept being passed at the net because if he continued to do it correctly, it would pay off when the pressure was ramped up later in the match.

The next time I encountered Achebe as a real person was in 2005.

After a visit to the constituency, the Labour MP Tom Watson stirred the pot by saying: "I have never encountered such animosity on the doorstep against an incumbent MP – particularly one as high-profile".

Each week they take a customised bus up to the Bellgrove from which they dispense some food and warmth, but also a degree of the dignity and respect which was probably last encountered a long time ago.

Some of those who have been detained at Homan report police tactics they encountered within the facility as an extension of those they encounter routinely on Chicago's streets.

What the then Ignacio Hurban encountered at the Carlotto home provoked something akin to culture shock.

He cast OJ Simpson's likeness – after adding a few extra layers to make the head big enough – but he had never encountered a tooth-gap before.

But, for all that, there is a certain satisfaction in seeing Greene King forced to minimise the presence of its own beers (that IPA, Noble lager) in its own pub, and, undoubtedly, the Grain Store will expose some drinkers to exciting new beers they would otherwise not have encountered.

A second-year student at the University of Oxford, who has asked not to be named, recalls the bewilderment she encountered after telling her tutor that her mother had died shortly before she'd started university.

For one thing, the 56 will rarely have encountered so many smart (as well as some stupid) Tory politicians as they have seen across the Commons chamber this week.

The Guugu Yimithirr, whose forbears had encountered Captain Cook near the town that bears his name in 1770, were at risk of collaborating with invading Japanese in 1942, according to the government of the time.

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