Example sentences of "[num ord] time that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 2 | FIFTIES star Connie Francis has confessed for the first time that she does not like her biggest hits . |
| 3 | It was not , of course , the first time that she had exercised the powers of Regent , but on this particular occasion she knew that she would have to deal with a new constitutional structure in which it was envisaged that she would merely be informed by the Ministers and would take no decisions on her own . |
| 4 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 5 | She had only passed her driving test after her marriage and this was the first time that she had driven unaccompanied by night . |
| 6 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 7 | It was the first time that she had forgotten the place of the Arab 's wife . |
| 8 | It was the first time that she had ever felt sorry for anyone . |
| 9 | It was the first time that she had seen Johnny dressed in full uniform . |
| 10 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 11 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 12 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 13 | It was the first time that she had ever told anyone of what had happened . |
| 14 | She was so startled the first time that she said to it : ‘ How nice to see you , my lord . ’ |
| 15 | This is the first time that she has met with something . |
| 16 | The next time that she 'd spoken to her father , she 'd suggested a meeting in the certain knowledge that it would be Joe who would turn up ; and he had . |
| 17 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 18 | She could n't remember the last time that she 'd invited a man into her home , and now it made her feel uneasy to watch Luke Calder inspecting all these snippets of her life . |