Example sentences of "first [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 2 | They first met him on the platform at Liverpool Street station during one of their regular Friday shuttles between Norfolk and London . |
| 3 | The unsatisfactoriness of the competing claims of various philosophers first led him to the belief that scientific knowledge of nature was unattainable by the human mind . |
| 4 | The first hit him on the bridge of the nose , almost severing the appendage and taking out an eye as it exited . |
| 5 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 6 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 7 | ‘ When I first saw him in the orphanage , he had a swollen head and a tiny little starved body with a pot belly . |
| 8 | John 's route first took him along the south coast of England during a heatwave then around the south west peninsula and Wales to Holyhead where he crossed to Dublin in November . |
| 9 | His interests include outdoor activities of fishing , climbing and walking which first introduced him to the area and DIY and cookery . |
| 10 | It was his own early instincts as a risk taker which first put him on the path that was ultimately to lead to him becoming chairman and chief executive of Hilton International . |