I tell you again, for the last time: We don't have the man.

She'll be all right, he told himself, not for the first time.

Easy, he told himself for the second time in as many hours, or you're going to turn yourself into one very sick boy.

"Stay away from me," she told him for the second time that night.

I'm telling you now for the last time to watch your step.

Now he has been told for the second time in five months that a team does not want his services.

You've come down a long way, he told himself, not for the first time.

"We have to get out of here," he told her, not for the first time.

Let it alone, he told himself, not for the first time.

And a few years after that, he told someone about his father for the first time.