Example sentences of "her [noun sg] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some similar process in Ursula presumably explained her willingness for the first time to discuss arrangements for the funeral , which they agreed should be held as soon as possible . |
| 2 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 3 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
| 4 | Belinda Jones , ’ the owner of the name said simply , and waited while Dr Russell 's sister seemed to fully take in her presence for the first time . |
| 5 | She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes . |
| 6 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 7 | FREED prisoner Karl Maxwell-Smith flew home to Britain from Thailand yesterday — and met his granddaughter and her mum for the first time . |
| 8 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 9 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 10 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 12 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 13 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 14 | Seeing his eyes move away from her mouth for the first time since the whole affair had begun , she shook her shoulders so that her full , rounded gourds trembled like jelly . |
| 15 | Mrs Beveridge cared for Leanne 's two children in her home for the first 24 hours of the siege . |
| 16 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 17 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 18 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 19 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
| 20 | Alone , with most of the lights out and the cleaning ladies dotting about in the corridors , she tidied the papers on her desk for the fiftieth time . |
| 21 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
| 22 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 23 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 24 | He saw her as he called her name for the third time . |
| 25 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 26 | After the break-up with Hugh she had resolved to concentrate on her career for the next few years . |
| 27 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
| 28 | The smaller girl was already quietly repeating the words of her song for the twentieth time . |
| 29 | She was beside herself , shouting at the top of her voice for the second time that day . |
| 30 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |