Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] for 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 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |