Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
2 | Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time . |
3 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
4 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
5 | His eyes , glittering with rage , bored into hers for one deadly moment ; then he was out of the office before she could move , and minutes later the showroom door closed with a precision she knew would remain with her for a long time . |
6 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
7 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
8 | At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms . |
9 | We talked about her for a long time , and I think our Chairman was impressed . |
10 | And me feeling so angry with her , and sorry for her at the same time . |
11 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
12 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
13 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
14 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
15 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
16 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
17 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
18 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
19 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
20 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
21 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
22 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
23 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
24 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
25 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
26 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
27 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
28 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
29 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |
30 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |