Sentence examples for had encountered him from inspiring English sources

The authorities would not discuss Mr. Eisenberg's background but suggested that they had encountered him before.

Any jihadist talk from Simpson when she had encountered him had seemed to be nothing more than that, she said.

So many people in Queens had encountered him on their shopping trips that they wrote in shoe polish on their windows, "We will miss you, James".

Judge spends half his time in Los Angeles and half in Austin, where I also live, and although I'd never met him before, it's a small-enough town that I knew people who had encountered him one way or another.

When she met Tiffany, she realised she had encountered him before – in the mid-90s when she was an impoverished single mother, writing what became the first Harry Potter novel over cooling cups of coffee in three Edinburgh cafes.

But no one who had encountered him at Radley College, Durham University or Middlesex claims, even with hindsight, to have identified him as a future England captain at that stage – variously describing him as "chaotic", "scatterbrains", "gullible" and in one case barely capable of tying his shoelaces.

I have encountered him more than once.

Long-winded Lady has encountered him many times.

None of his rivals seem to have encountered him.

I have encountered him on Strictly Come Dancing, and I think he does it brilliantly".

It's less likely that you've encountered him as a solo artist.