Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 32 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 33 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 34 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 35 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 36 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |
| 37 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 38 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 39 | Well , I can tell you something ; I 'm on my own in this house from now on and I shall see to her bathing , and should he attempt to stop me , I 've told him what I 'll do ; I 'll brain him with the first thing I get my hands on . |
| 40 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 41 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 42 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 43 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 44 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 45 | I took him to the first Giants game when he was three . |
| 46 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 47 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 48 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 49 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 50 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 51 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 52 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 53 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 54 | Hugh liked him from the first ; and so do I like him , I like him very well . |
| 55 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 56 | Well , that 's always supposing you can get him in the first place , because the number of people who have actually seen him , you can count on one hand . ’ |
| 57 | He said after the case that the Department of Trade and Industry had been ‘ rather petty ’ in prosecuting him in the first place . |
| 58 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 59 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 60 | She moved past them , smiling at Axel , as if welcoming him for the first time . |