Example sentences of "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 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything .
5 ‘ Whatever you say , Mr Jacobsen , ’ she murmured huskily , and he pulled her to him for a last long kiss that left her breathless and trembling .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day .
10 The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind .
11 Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time .
12 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 .
13 Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time .
14 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 . ’
15 Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ .
16 The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time .
17 I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner .
18 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 ’ .
19 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 .
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 After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy .
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 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 .
24 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 . ’
25 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 .
26 ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners .
27 ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down .
28 Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed .
29 It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears .
30 " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time .
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