Example sentences of "[vb past] she [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 2 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 4 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 5 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
| 6 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 7 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 10 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 11 | The numbing stupor got her through the next few hours . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 14 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 15 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
| 16 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 17 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 18 | He took her into the next room , performed a little pantomime of swivelling hips and stormy eyes , then wrapped his arm around her . |
| 19 | Took her in the next day . |
| 20 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 21 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
| 22 | Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank . |
| 23 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 24 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |