Example sentences of "enter [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 2 | I never wanted to do anything , it never entered my head to do anything else . |
| 3 | Well i it , it certainly never entered my head to do anything else and although several other things were suggested er I never er I never even considered them . |
| 4 | It simplified things … but the thought never even entered my head , that I could use this as a way of altering the course . |
| 5 | ‘ Rape , darling , ’ he sneered , ‘ never entered my head . ’ |
| 6 | The thought never entered my head ! ’ |
| 7 | I knew the rule well enough , but in that split second it never entered my head . |
| 8 | My brother Edward came much later , when I was fourteen , so he hardly entered my childhood at all . |
| 9 | It was n't the best news to come home to — finding my renegade nephew had not only broken and entered my apartment but was bent on destroying an important career opportunity by eloping with some feather-brained teenager ! |
| 10 | Stephanie is regularly offered geriatric roles and thinks it is because she was brought up surrounded by archetypal elderly Englishwomen — ‘ I suppose it entered my bloodstream ’ . |
| 11 | The first thing Maxine said to me when she entered my consulting room was that she hoped she was not wasting my time and she was sorry she was being so stupid . |
| 12 | Then , with perfect timing , another element entered my life that was soon to prove so important . |
| 13 | Beth gave me more healing , and a new ally now entered my life . |
| 14 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 15 | I was preparing to depart from the hospital when the British nurse entered my suite in a white glow of anger . |
| 16 | And then the word Agnes entered my mind . |
| 17 | ‘ It never even entered my mind . ’ |
| 18 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 19 | As soon as he entered my room that night , he declared provocatively that I must be rich to have such a bed and quilt , as well as cassettes and a television and a video . |
| 20 | All these questions came tumbling out the moment she entered my room a couple of days later . |
| 21 | Suddenly S. entered my room with a telegram in his hand saying : ‘ It has come . |
| 22 | After the gentlemen had left , I entered my room and locked the door . |
| 23 | I asked , as two cameramen walked over both of us , and a television sound instrument entered my ear . |
| 24 | The chief medico in charge of my case , a Dr Rosemary Kepepwe , entered my hospital room smiling , bringing with her a copy of my book . |
| 25 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 26 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 27 | I crossed the garden and entered my house like a stranger . |
| 28 | She took them off the minute she entered her apartment block , realising that since no one at Vasey 's had seen her without her glasses they had no need to question why she was wearing them now . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's in there , ’ she said , and something so sad and so wistful entered her voice that Caspar , who was by no means insensitive , looked at her more intently . |
| 30 | Reserve entered her voice . |