Example sentences of "[prep] time she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not counting the number of times she put her fat face round the door & said , nodding and smiling as only a Frenchwoman can , with an air of delighted gaiety ( ! ) |
| 2 | Indeed , a couple of times she had complained that he was trying to adopt her . |
| 3 | The number of times she had had to go to school with no knickers on was nobody 's business , she often told her husband . |
| 4 | She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside . |
| 5 | A couple of times she 's sent money for Easter eggs and school photos . |
| 6 | Jane Pargeter was determined to look relaxed , Dexter thought , even though the number of times she kept bobbing her mouth down to sip her tea showed that she was not . |
| 7 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 8 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 9 | She brought her haul of county match appearances up to 99 , while the number of times she played for her club — she was playing for Ganton up until a few months before her death — must have constituted a record . |
| 10 | and she goes I 've had enough questions for one day , I said it plenty of times she said oh shut up you wee wally |
| 11 | A couple of times she 's been standing behind a door , open it , smash her brains in . |
| 12 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 13 | In a very short space of time she would have her feet under the table and those huge jaws would be munching their way into the breast . |
| 14 | The funny thing was that Uncle George had made no remark about the length of time she 'd been away . |
| 15 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 16 | They had reacted badly to the amount of time she was forced to spend on organising the first meeting . |
| 17 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 18 | Over a period of time she was seen by a number of psychotherapists and psychologists who adopted differing approaches to her varied problems . |
| 19 | Oh , her mother was good , she worshipped her grandchild , but sometimes Kate felt a twinge of guilt at the amount of time she herself spent away from Lizzy . |
| 20 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 21 | Maybe in the course of time she will show me all these marvels . " |
| 22 | With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew . |
| 23 | Claudia started more coffee , reflecting that if Dana was going to stay for any length of time she would need fresh supplies . |
| 24 | Judging by the amount of time she spent with us . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So within a short space of time she lost her baby and permanently lost her ability to have another baby with serious and lasting consequences to her health and eventually fatal consequences for her marriage . ’ |
| 26 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 27 | In time she also found allies in a handful of civil servants like Charles Powell and Sir Bernard Cradock and an occasional diplomat like Sir Anthony Duff and Sir Crispin Tickell . |
| 28 | At that instant she chose the path of her own life , and understood that in time she would have to part company with her friend . |
| 29 | In time she would put the disagreeable widow in her place . |
| 30 | In time she will find her own way of dealing with her pain . |