Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
| 2 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 3 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 4 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 5 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 6 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 7 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 8 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 10 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 11 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 12 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 13 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 15 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 16 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 17 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 18 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 19 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 21 | A Jewish chronicler attributed the success of the expedition entirely to the youthful Ensign , calling him for the first time ‘ Cidi ’ , the equivalent of Mio Cid ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 22 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 23 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 24 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 25 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 26 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 27 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |