Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 2 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 3 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 4 | She prided herself on the last . |
| 5 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 6 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 7 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 9 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 10 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 11 | She followed him to the third floor , then along the gallery to a closed door . |
| 12 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 13 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 14 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 15 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 16 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |