Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 32 | And we started her off and she went round and as she went past the second time she said I ca n't stop ! |
| 33 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 34 | Tom Russell , she learned at the same time , drank his black as well . |
| 35 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 36 | She smiled for the first time at him . |
| 37 | She smiled for the first time in hours . |
| 38 | She smiled for the first time , wincing as the pull of facial muscles reminded her she 'd had a crack on the head . |
| 39 | She spoke for the first time since luncheon began : " Darling , your spinach , please . " |
| 40 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 41 | " You encouraged him , " she said for the tenth time . |
| 42 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 43 | Lowe was twelve when she married for the third time — to a psychologist — and he arrived , all corn-fed and terminally uncool , in Malibu . |
| 44 | On 15 November she wrote to the Financial Times . |