Example sentences of "[verb] her for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
2 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
3 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
4 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
5 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
6 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
7 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
8 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
9 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
10 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
11 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
12 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
13 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
14 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
15 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
16 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
17 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
18 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
19 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
20 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
21 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
22 | ‘ I 've seen the looks people give Jenny when they see her for the first time , ’ says her mother , Helen . |