Example sentences of "him for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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31 She moved past them , smiling at Axel , as if welcoming him for the first time .
32 Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord .
33 She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again .
34 It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend .
35 When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once .
36 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 .
37 As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance .
38 Liessa spared him a brief glance , and appeared actually to notice him for the first time .
39 Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant .
40 She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them .
41 Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time .
42 It was in 1977 and ‘ 78 that McEvoy won this title before Ronan Rafferty beat him for the first ( and only ) time in nearly 30 matches for England .
43 Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’
44 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 .
45 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
46 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 .
47 The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time .
48 To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
49 met him for the first time I think and erm
50 But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place .
51 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 .
52 Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time .
53 Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session .
54 Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department .
55 ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’
56 But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with .
57 But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen .
58 In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home .
59 After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea .
60 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 .
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