Example sentences of "[vb past] her [prep] the [adj] 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 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 7 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 8 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 9 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 10 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 11 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |