Example sentences of "she [verb] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 2 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 3 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 4 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 5 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 6 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She realized for the first time fully consciously that she was ill at ease with , even afraid of , very tall men . |
| 9 | When she heard the voice of Sam 's mother she realized for the first time that it was more than likely that her own mother would , during the course of the evening , make some reference to the dinner-party which , she had been led to believe , was taking place in Pam 's house . |
| 10 | ‘ But why ca n't I join Brownies , Mummy ? ’ she asked for the twentieth time . |
| 11 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 12 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 13 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 14 | She noticed for the first time that he was wearing a pair of white , glowing incongruously in the twilight . |
| 15 | She noticed for the first time that they had stopped , and looking round , discovered that they were outside the house . |
| 16 | She noticed for the first time that he had a slight limp . |
| 17 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 18 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 19 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 20 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 21 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 22 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 23 | She exhibited for the first time in spring 1900 at the New English Art Club , an organization with strong Slade connections , and continued to show there twice yearly until 1903 . |
| 24 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 25 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 26 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 27 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 28 | Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her . |
| 29 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're so lucky ! ’ she thought for the umpteenth time . |