Example sentences of "[verb] him for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 5 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 6 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 7 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 8 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 9 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 16 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 25 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 26 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
| 27 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 28 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 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 . ’ |