Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 2 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 3 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 4 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 5 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 6 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 7 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 8 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
| 9 | In a postscript Eliza somewhat enigmatically mentions her pregnancy for the first time : |
| 10 | He saw her as he called her name for the third time . |
| 11 | Outside in the street I took her hand for the first time . |
| 12 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 13 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 14 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
| 15 | Hilda left her country for the first time at the age of 63 to talk to human rights organizations , politicians and solidarity groups . |
| 16 | Some similar process in Ursula presumably explained her willingness for the first time to discuss arrangements for the funeral , which they agreed should be held as soon as possible . |
| 17 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 18 | Beth never took her eyes off the little group ; Cissie , who was now a young lady of exceptional prettiness and who was hugging her brother for the umpteenth time ; and Beth 's own son Richard … now six years old and growing more like Tyler every day ; and David , a quiet man , a man who was too gentle , a man still dominated by the monster who had raised him . |