Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 2 | The following example comes from the interview with Sally Jordan , a factory worker and a dustman 's wife ; she belongs in the first group of working-class women whose early positive or non-committal response turns into predominantly negative feeling : |
| 3 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 4 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 5 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 6 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 7 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 8 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 9 | How she got through the next day , she could n't remember . |
| 10 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 11 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 12 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 13 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 14 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 15 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 16 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 17 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 18 | She hopped over the next puddle , then the next . |
| 19 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 20 | ‘ Are you alone ? ’ asked Helen , when she phoned through the next afternoon to the College of Further Education staff common room during Greg 's free period . |
| 21 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 22 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 23 | She stopped on the third step , and looked back at Pete . |
| 24 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 25 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 26 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 27 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 28 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 29 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 30 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |