Example sentences of "be a time [adv] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a time , a brief time , a glorious dawn , when despite her growing awareness of her own sexual failure , despite her anger and frustration , despite her own laziness and lack of commitment , there had been a time when she had been happy and hopeful and joyous . |
| 2 | There had been a time when she had stared from Crowe 's knee , before Crowe 's study fire , out at Alexander on the Long Royston terrace . |
| 3 | There had been a time when she had thought of going with Roman and dreamed of dancing held tightly in his arms , but now she doubted she would go at all . |
| 4 | There was a time when she was interested in their politics , their science , their inventions , when she considered herself a small part of the great adventure , until one day the feeling was born in her that she did not belong among them . |
| 5 | There was a time when she could remember thinking it was a very nice room and that she was lucky to have a carpet on the floor and not just lino . |
| 6 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 7 | But there was a time when she was a sort of pariah . |