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

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1 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 .
2 ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place .
6 ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ?
7 ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners .
8 He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 .
9 So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 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 .
12 I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War .
13 Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place .
14 Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton .
15 No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me .
16 Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place .
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