Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] time she " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 2 | Because she was physically worse after the operation than before it , Rose was convinced that the doctors had made a mistake , and for a long time she wanted to sue them . |
| 3 | For a long time she lay , wide-eyed in the darkness , living over again the strange events of the day , until these thoughts and impressions gradually merged into dreams . |
| 4 | For a long time she had thought they referred to a mother and a female baby bear . |
| 5 | For a long time she maintained her maiden name until it became a public and political necessity to adopt the surname Clinton . |
| 6 | For a long time she had been out of control , unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role . |
| 7 | For a long time she had not been able to face many of her friends . |
| 8 | For a long time she imagined she might open the door and see the body of her mother , stretched out in death on her bed , her arms folded across her chest , her eyes still open and staring at the ceiling . |
| 9 | For a long time she stayed outside keeping from sleep to hold that moment , hold it as being now , not letting it go to be yesterday , go into the past . |
| 10 | Chesarynth concentrated on the maths of it so hard that for a long time she ignored the awareness tugging at her subconscious . |
| 11 | For a long time she would n't tell us . |
| 12 | For a long time she waited , and nothing more terrible came to enter that silence than her own dark imaginings . |
| 13 | For a long time she lay awake , staring into the darkness and telling herself that she had been absolutely crazy to let this happen . |
| 14 | For a long time she sat at the breakfast bar , gazing into space , searching for answers and finding none . |
| 15 | For a long time she listened to his breathing , praying for sleep . |
| 16 | For a long time she had been unaware of anything lacking , but recently she had started feeling somehow … adrift . |
| 17 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 18 | ‘ She will have well-ordered meals nicely presented , and for a short time she will mix with the other patients . |
| 19 | By August 1991 W. 's condition had deteriorated to the point at which for a short time she had to be fed by nasogastric tube and have her arms encased in plaster . |
| 20 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 21 | Within a short time she was sitting only for Dante Gabriel Rossetti [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | But when she reached the office she found concentration to be almost impossible , and within a short time she became impatient with herself . |