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Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1	Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone .
2	I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’
3	Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met .
4	It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend .
5	He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her .
6	Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time .
7	She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen .
8	What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ?
9	Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself .
10	In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation .
11	Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time .
12	‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down .
13	She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again .
14	She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things .
15	There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner .