Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the first " 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 It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England .
4 His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank .
5 " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time .
6 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 ) !
7 He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 .
8 To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ?
12 After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 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 .
18 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
19 We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’
24 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 ’ .
25 Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time .
26 The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind .
27 As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance .
28 Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ?
29 I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War .
30 ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’
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