An agent will make preliminary contact with you at the airport.

I have made some preliminary contact with them.

You have made, we would presume, preliminary contact.

The preliminary contacts did not yield any concrete alliances.

The Czechs have already had preliminary contacts with Iran, one American official said.

"Or I might merge with someone; I've had some preliminary contacts."

The first part of the act makes it an offence to "meet a child following certain preliminary contact".

"Yet you've managed to make preliminary contact?"

Acquisition search and preliminary contact with possible targets.

He said preliminary contacts had been promising, and cited good relations with a growing number of independent film makers.