Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 2 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 3 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 4 | His eyelashes concealed his eyes in that secret , almost coy way he had and she was suddenly dreadfully frightened and angry with him at the same time . |
| 5 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 6 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 7 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 8 | A copy of the report must also be sent to him at the same time that it is sent to the Secretary of State , and he then has twenty-one days in which to decide whether he will ask for a review board to examine the whole matter in public . |
| 9 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 10 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 11 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 12 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 18 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 19 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 20 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 21 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |