Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 4 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 5 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 13 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 14 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 16 | 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 . |