Example sentences of "[vb past] she [prep] the [num ord] time " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
5 ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’
6 Leo asked her for the second time .
7 His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman .
8 ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time .
9 It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him .
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