Example sentences of "to him [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 2 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 3 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 6 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 7 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 8 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 9 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 15 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 17 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |