Example sentences of "first time she " in BNC.
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| 1 | First time she was seventeen . |
| 2 | This was the first time she had come into my thoughts since I left England . |
| 3 | She hesitated at the corner , reluctant almost to discover that she was now , as of this moment , completely lost in the world , and for the first time she asked herself clearly why she had decided to come here . |
| 4 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 5 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 6 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 7 | The first time she brought him flowers — a posy of crocuses in a glass jar — he suddenly and unaccountably wept . |
| 8 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 9 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
| 10 | The first time she wore it , Nigel kept his coat on at a party so that he could hold the side out and cover the vision . |
| 11 | It was the first time she had ever warned him off anything private and for a moment he looked puzzled and embarrassed . |
| 12 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 13 | It was the first time she 'd heard her speak . |
| 14 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 15 | It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again . |
| 16 | From the first time she was asked to canter a figure-of-eight she knew that one always cantered a figure-of-eight ; and so when she was asked to trot one instead , she became increasingly anxious , excited , irrational , and disobedient . |
| 17 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 18 | Not for the first time she thought her father would have made a wonderful actor . |
| 19 | The first time she attempted to climb onto the pole she failed , but succeeded the second . |
| 20 | For the first time she was really listening , not going through the motions of an argument . |
| 21 | It was the first time she had ever seen her team eager and willing and fully co-operative , the envy of all her friends . |
| 22 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 23 | So it is possible to refer to a contextually prominent woman as she , the first time she is mentioned in a conversation . |
| 24 | Now for the first time she was face to face with fragmented suggestions of reality , distorted perhaps , like the sun glancing on water , but hinting at something very different from the fairy tale princess the child Harriet had claimed as her own . |
| 25 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 26 | For the first time she felt the stirrings of something like power . |
| 27 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 28 | She usually so high and bright , a breezy chatter of her day in class , but now ; her work , the tawse , the first time she had used it , her tearful minute victims , she did not feel herself at all . |
| 29 | It was the first time she had been so near a man with sweet breath and the scent of success about him . |
| 30 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |