Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] time she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second time she had burned her boats . |
| 2 | For the first time she had met him a flush darkened the back of his neck . |
| 3 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 4 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She went over and over the last time she had seen him . |
| 7 | In contrast to the last time she had spoken to him , his mood seem positively sunny . |