Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 2 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How she got through the next day , she could n't remember . |
| 8 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 13 | She hopped over the next puddle , then the next . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 18 | She stopped on the third step , and looked back at Pete . |
| 19 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 20 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 21 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 22 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 23 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She withdrew from the second round , allowing the unopposed election of Galy-Dejean ( the mayor of the 15th arrondissement , of which the ward formed a part ) . |
| 27 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 28 | With a sigh she turned to the next patient , smiling as a young woman carried a small child into the room . |
| 29 | She turned to the next cutting in the hope of finding a less lurid account of the case . |
| 30 | She turned to the next sheet of cuttings , and began to read an article from the Sun . |