Example sentences of "him for [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " 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 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 3 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 6 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 7 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 8 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 9 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 10 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 11 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 12 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 15 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 16 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 26 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 27 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 28 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 29 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |