Example sentences of "find him first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've got to find him first , ’ muttered Lou defiantly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A Fraud Squad detective said : ‘ I hope for his sake we find him first . ’ |
| 6 | It 's also crucial to stop someone else finding him first . ’ |
| 7 | If the police did n't find him first he would eventually wake and wander away . |