Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] time she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 2 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 3 | Not for the first time she found herself pitying Sarah Morey . |
| 4 | Not for the first time she missed her husband dreadfully . |
| 5 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 6 | Not for the first time she wondered cynically whether she craved Tyler Blacklock because he was tall , darkly handsome and unattainable , or because he was fast becoming a very rich and influential man . |
| 7 | Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . |
| 8 | Not for the first time she wished she had a car . |
| 9 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 10 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 11 | But now for the first time she recognised the chill of fear . |
| 12 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 13 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
| 14 | Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle . |
| 15 | Even in the little time she had had since yesterday ( and she had sent out at once for gossip papers . |
| 16 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 17 | Yet at the same time she knew that she actually was Martha — she felt like Martha deep within her and had , in fact , completely forgotten why she was being hypnotized and regressed . |
| 18 | She felt an absolute wreck , yet at the same time she felt acutely self-aware . |
| 19 | Emma had sprung round from her crouching position now ; her whole body was trembling , yet at the same time she looked taut . |