Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
2 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
3 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
4 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
5 | To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning . |
6 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
7 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
8 | So , ‘ Goodnight , Ven , ’ she bade him for a third time , only this time she stretched up to him and touched her lips to his cheek . |
9 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
10 | ‘ Goodnight ! ’ she wished him for a fourth time , and went to her room feeling very much better about everything . |
11 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |