The grammatically correct sentence "I encountered a case" is usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a specific incident or example. For example: "I encountered a case of cyberbullying while teaching my class about online safety."
He had never, however, encountered a case like that of Colonel Fawcett.
Wheatley has been a police officer for 26 years, and has never encountered a case that has proved so challenging.
"I haven't encountered a case with this nature of allegations in 31 years as a prosecutor," said the state's attorney for Litchfield County, Frank Maco.
But I spent years as the editor of House & Garden, and I don't think I ever encountered a case like Meghan Daum's.
Ms. Miles's surgeon, Dr. Soon Park, had performed lung transplants from living donors, but had never encountered a case in which a donor was not a blood relative, he said.
I had never encountered a case where the voices of the past were so clearly heard speaking about art in an age before it became densely familiar through museums, exhibitions and reproductions.
Although angioedema with a well-defined bradykinin-mediated pathogenesis is relatively rare, most ED staff will likely encounter a case at some point in their career.
The above identifiers were chosen to increase the likelihood of including physicians encountering a case of non type 1 diabetes in a child.
When one encounters a case such as this, where well-validated morphologic features are contradictory to the molecular analysis, one must exercise caution in arriving at a final diagnosis.
What they found instead was that the doctors most likely to diagnose a tough case were those who had already encountered a similar case — either through their own experience or through hearing about someone else's experience.
One day, by chance, Mr. Edmundson encountered a military case manager who asked him why his son was not at a civilian rehabilitation hospital.
