Example sentences of "[vb past] she for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 2 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 3 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 4 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 7 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 8 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 9 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |