Example sentences of "time she [vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun] " 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 For a long time she listened to his breathing , praying for sleep .
3 For the first time she saw through his mask of precocious intelligence and saw how vulnerable he was , how frail in spite of all .
4 Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times .
5 In the year I had skippered Wavebreaker at least half of our married male charterers had either offered Ellen a job or pressed her to visit their offices the next time she passed through their city .
6 Every time she thought about her mother , the tears were there .
7 She heard it in his voice when he spoke to her , saw it in his eyes when he was thinking , felt it in his great muscular body every time she lay in his arms at night .
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