Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 2 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 3 | Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display . |
| 4 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 5 | Theda 's hands rubbed furiously at one of the posts of the bed in the second of the chambers she had tackled in the last unnumbered days . |
| 6 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 7 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 8 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 9 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 10 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 11 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 12 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 13 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 14 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 15 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 16 | It made her feel slightly sick now ; the satisfying feeling of warmth and lightness she had experienced after the first few glasses had long since disappeared . |
| 17 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 18 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 19 | She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . |
| 20 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |