Example sentences of "[verb] him for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 32 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 37 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 38 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 39 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 40 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | You saw him for the last time in 1959 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | She moved past them , smiling at Axel , as if welcoming him for the first time . |
| 45 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 46 | Liessa spared him a brief glance , and appeared actually to notice him for the first time . |
| 47 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 48 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 49 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 50 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 51 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |
| 52 | I was so relieved it was all over and my baby was alright and I held him for the first time . |