Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 2 | He takes the understandable view that it is for him to take the first steps in Russia , which he is doing to keep the scientists in Russia . |
| 3 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 4 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 5 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 6 | Both Johnson Matthey and the Ceramic Society supported Mike through this transition , allowing him to become the first president of the Canadian Ceramic Society to reside outside of Canada . |