Example sentences of "[num ord] time [subord] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
3 | And for the second time since she 'd first met him , he turned on his heel and left her , his blistering words still seeming to echo in the very air around her . |
4 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
5 | A light breeze made play with her skirts and , for the first time since she had arrived at Yelton , she wished she could let down her hair and feel the wind run its fingers through it . |
6 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
7 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
8 | Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden . |
9 | She thought she might even be able to get a good night 's sleep for the first time since she had arrived at the house . |
10 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
11 | ‘ Daddy , darling , ’ Alyssia said , smiling genuinely for the first time since she had stepped foot back on to English soil and kissing him on the tip of his nose , ‘ in your own cantankerous way , you 've put your finger right on the button . ’ |
12 | Next morning , for the first time since she had started at G.W. , she arrived late , almost too terrified to step across the threshold . |
13 | He looked at McAllister for the first time since she had begun to help him , and saw her strained white face , the eyes enormous in it . |
14 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
15 | He looked as if he was going to protest , but his eyes caught her face , and for the first time since she had known him Nelson was one hundred per cent a grown-up . |
16 | For the first time since she 'd appeared she said his name , tentatively , as though in this darkness she 'd suddenly doubted he was real . |
17 | He guided her every step of the way , and for the first time since she 'd joined C 's Circus she felt like a woman being seduced . |
18 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
19 | For the first time since she 'd met him there was genuine warmth in his eyes , concern robbing his features of their normal granite harshness . |
20 | She could see it in his face , his guard , for the first time since she 'd known him , completely lowered . |
21 | For the first time since she iced her Dad , Jazzbeaux felt she really had a purpose on this dull earth . |
22 | For the first time since she arrived in Rome , the connection came up immediately and she could hear Nora 's voice , distant but clear , at the other end . |
23 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
24 | 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 . |