Example sentences of "her for the [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
2 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
3 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
4 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
5 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
6 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |