Example sentences of "[verb] him first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 've arranged for you to meet him first . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They 've got to find him first , ’ muttered Lou defiantly . |
| 3 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |
| 4 | His defence was that of self-defence ; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first . |
| 5 | He said Mr Hawthorne had attacked him first , striking him with the crowbar on the hand . |
| 6 | The first positive statement to this effect in the available sources is to be found in Mustakimzade , who not only places him first in his list but also states explicitly , on the authority of the historian " Aziz Efendi ( ? ) , that Molla Fenari was the first to hold the office of Mufti in the Ottoman state . |
| 7 | The lure of volumes , in the wake of the Advanced Computing Environment fiasco , is pushing him first into Sun 's domain where the majority of users who care are said to prefer Motif over Open Look ( 36% versus 29% ) . |
| 8 | Ray McAnally played him first . |
| 9 | ‘ Then we just kill him first . ’ |
| 10 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 11 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 12 | Nora had seen him first and was already running far dear life , not caring about her bag or the bicycle . |
| 13 | She provoked him first to talk about his interests , the books he read , the films he watched . |
| 14 | Lorton had met him first in Beirut where he ran a short-lived but lucrative business selling the same medical supplies to more than one purchaser . |
| 15 | ‘ This one sounds quite promising , but of course I must see him first — one ca n't always tell from the application , he added primly . |
| 16 | I 'll see him first . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You meet him first — this evening at his hotel . |
| 18 | Clive 's favourite , perfectly serious , leitmotif was : ‘ We 're a top team , are n't we ! ’ until Jane felt she 'd scream if he said it once more , and ordered breakfast in her room so as to avoid him first thing in the morning , at least . |
| 19 | Oh I 'll ring him first thing Monday morning then . |
| 20 | In On the Night of the Fire ( 1939 , The Fugitive in US ) , Ralph Richardson plays a small-town barber whose desire to be shot of a miserable life , ‘ earning a few quid a week and no hope of making anything more ’ leads him first to an act of casual theft , then murder . |
| 21 | She kissed him first on his neck , then his face and finally his mouth . |
| 22 | Lewis was perfectly correct , even politically correct , to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first . |
| 23 | Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day . |
| 24 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll be better for me to ride him first , as he 's always a bit frisky when he first starts out , ’ Angela told Cheryl when she returned . |
| 26 | Well we lost him first . |
| 27 | Looking over Dostoevsky 's shoulder , we find him first writing ‘ small yellow glass ’ , then deleting ‘ small ’ ; and writing ‘ water ’ then adding ‘ yellow warm ’ to the water , then deleting ‘ warm ’ — the final text uniting an apocalyptic starkness of yellow meets yellow with the topicality of Petersburg 's notoriously filthy water supply , a subject of much comment and complaint in the newspapers . |
| 28 | A Fraud Squad detective said : ‘ I hope for his sake we find him first . ’ |
| 29 | Yes but I 'm not sure , I think I 'd rather phone him first if |
| 30 | What hit him most was what hit him first . |