Example sentences of "he [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
2 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
3 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
4 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
5 | ‘ Whatever you say , Mr Jacobsen , ’ she murmured huskily , and he pulled her to him for a last long kiss that left her breathless and trembling . |
6 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
7 | Wahono , general chair of Golkar ( the ruling Functional Group Centre or Golongan Karya Pusat ) , announced on Oct. 20 that President Suharto had agreed to Golkar 's plan to nominate him for a sixth five-year term as president . |
8 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
9 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
10 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
11 | Vincent looked at him , as if seeing him for the first time . |
12 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
13 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
14 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
15 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
16 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
17 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
18 | A Jewish chronicler attributed the success of the expedition entirely to the youthful Ensign , calling him for the first time ‘ Cidi ’ , the equivalent of Mio Cid ‘ my lord ’ . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
21 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
22 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
23 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
24 | Like if I interviewed Johnny Thunders , it was n't to meet him for the first time , it was to try to save his career . ’ |
25 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
26 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
27 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
28 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
29 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
30 | " Oh , that 's you , Fiver , is it ? " said Bigwig , noticing him for the first time . |