Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [noun sg] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 2 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 3 | For the first week she became much more difficult . |
| 4 | ‘ For the first month she had to sleep on the settee , and I lay on the floor beside her . |
| 5 | She hesitated at the corner , reluctant almost to discover that she was now , as of this moment , completely lost in the world , and for the first time she asked herself clearly why she had decided to come here . |
| 6 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 7 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
| 8 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 9 | It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again . |
| 10 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 11 | For the first time she was really listening , not going through the motions of an argument . |
| 12 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 13 | For the first time she felt the stirrings of something like power . |
| 14 | Not for the first time she found herself pitying Sarah Morey . |
| 15 | Once the heaviness dropped away her black hair formed into tight curls , and for the first time she looked almost pretty . |
| 16 | For the first time she could smell the dankness and the odour of rotting seaweed . |
| 17 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 18 | For the first time she paraded her new team . |
| 19 | For the first time she saw the red tin container he had been hiding behind his back . |
| 20 | For the first time she gave vent to loud screams , which became her usual method of attracting attention from that time : ‘ this manner of crying endured many years after this time , for aught any man might do , and therefore , suffered she much despite and much reproof ’ . |
| 21 | Now he drew himself upwards and stepped back from her , and it seemed to give her space to breathe , for she drew air into her lungs and for the first time she spoke , almost whimpering now : ‘ I … |
| 22 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 23 | When the arms reached up and her head bent to the face , for the first time she kissed and was kissed . |
| 24 | Now here for the first time she was fighting her own battle . |
| 25 | ‘ The day that our papers went before the panel and we heard that everything was OK , Anna walked into the room , and for the first time she said ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 26 | Not for the first time she missed her husband dreadfully . |
| 27 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 28 | Then , for the first time she noticed how clumsy they were — they kept bumping into each other . |
| 29 | Not for the first time she wondered cynically whether she craved Tyler Blacklock because he was tall , darkly handsome and unattainable , or because he was fast becoming a very rich and influential man . |
| 30 | For the first time she seemed to look at him . |