Example sentences of "[verb] him for [art] [num ord] time " 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 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 3 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 4 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 5 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 6 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |
| 19 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 20 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 21 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 22 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 23 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 29 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 30 | 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 . |