Example sentences of "[vb past] him for the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 2 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 5 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 10 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 11 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 12 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 15 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 16 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |