Example sentences of "[prep] she [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ There ai n't no list , lady , ’ he said as he pushed past her with the first of the consignment . |
| 3 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 4 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 5 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 6 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 7 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 8 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 9 | She lived in a dream of love from the moment that he had bowed over her hand when she had been introduced to him by Daisy Warwick at Warwick Castle , and murmured , ‘ Not an American Princess , surely , but a true one , ’ and later that evening , dancing with her for the third time , he had said into her ear , ‘ And can a princess stoop to a mere marquess ? ’ |
| 10 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 11 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 12 | Athena appears in the first and last and in one other at each end ; Hermes with her in the first and without her in the Cerberus , where his presence is necessary as the hero 's guide to the Underworld . |
| 13 | At first I was bitterly jealous of Rachel and only wanted Jacob to love me more than her to win something from her for the first time in my miserable life , but by the end of that blissful week , I found that I , unfortunately , had also fallen victim to his charms . |
| 14 | She had to keep her wits about her in the next few minutes . |
| 15 | Daak was waiting for her beyond the next upright . |
| 16 | Together they had laboured in the fields until fortune smiled on Elizabeth ; while she was still in her teens , her family were befriended by a wealthy benefactor who had her educated and , in 1744 , arranged a marriage for her with the 13th Earl of Glencairn . |
| 17 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 18 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 19 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 20 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 21 | Anne herself found that when she voiced her grievances quietly and calmly , rather than screaming them , her family paid attention to her for the first time . |
| 22 | Her heart thumped painfully as she remembered him making love to her for the first time , the hard , forceful thrust of his body coming much quicker than she had expected , an abrupt shock after all the gentleness that had gone before . |
| 23 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 24 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 25 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 26 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 27 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 28 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 29 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 30 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |