Example sentences of "to him [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
2 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
5 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
6 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
7 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
8 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
9 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
10 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
11 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
12 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
13 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |