Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She started as the first hired staff person . |
| 2 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 3 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
| 4 | Much cheered , she bit into the first forkful . |
| 5 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 6 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 7 | For a brief moment , as she battled with the last remaining shreds of her resistance , Lindsey could feel the thud of his heartbeat , then excitement exploded , heady and intoxicating , as her hands relaxed against the warmth of his chest . |
| 8 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 9 | She waited until the last possible moment before pivoting round to challenge the approaching figure . |
| 10 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 11 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
| 12 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 13 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 14 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |