One is that Jake, when you first encounter him, talks like an art-theory textbook.
We first encounter him getting up from a seat in the stalls.
When you first encounter him he peers mournfully back at you.
When we first encounter him, he is already aloft, in a formation of three.
Vronsky's mother is occasionally present but when we first encounter him Tolstoy quickly tells us: "Vronsky never knew family life".
We first encounter him meting out justice with a severity tempered by kindness to a world that is just this side of bestial.
Ifan's Len has in fact holed up on an isolated house (we first encounter him as he idly watches The Sweeney on DVD – very rock'n'roll).
Eventually William discovers that Hester is having an affair with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a dashing former pilot who seems, at least as we first encounter him, the dreamy antithesis of his stolid rival.
When we first encounter him, Bowman is a young naval officer on his way to Okinawa, where his ship will face the final kamikaze assaults from the Japanese navy.
In 1973, when we first encounter him, Ian Curtis Sam Rileyy) is a lanky schoolboy in Macclesfield, a red-brick English town outside of Manchester, with intense but not unusual interests.
*** "There are massive ups and downs," says Peter Johnson, 37, who is trembling and on the brink of tears when I first encounter him just before he goes into court.
