Example sentences of "him for the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 2 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 7 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 8 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 18 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 19 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 20 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 21 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | When she said this she looked full at him for the first time and ill though she seemed he saw in her eyes the full pride and command of an eagle . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |
| 29 | She moved past them , smiling at Axel , as if welcoming him for the first time . |
| 30 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |