Example sentences of "[verb] he for the first time " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |
3 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
6 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ’ . |
13 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
14 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
15 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |
16 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
17 | 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 . ’ |
18 | Let me now assume that you are being considered by a prospective principal and are seeing him for the first time . |
19 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
20 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
23 | 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 . |
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25 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
26 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
27 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
28 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
29 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
30 | She moved past them , smiling at Axel , as if welcoming him for the first time . |