Example sentences of "her [noun] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stayed there for three years and lost track of her sister during that time . |
| 2 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 3 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 4 | She was genuine , by which they meant she paid her bills in good time , and employed union labour . |
| 5 | ‘ I will manage , thank you , ’ Theda had told her , her senses by this time becoming dulled to the dreadful impressions that had battered her one after the other in this horrid house . |
| 6 | Er , you know , because anything belonging to a wife belonged to her husband at that time . |
| 7 | For example , a well-ordered lady who had always prepared her husband 's evening meal , was given the task of laying ( and relaying ) the tea tables to help with her restlessness at that time of day ( Marshall , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 9 | She wrote a great deal in her Diary at this time , chiefly about Gran , about how clever she was and how beautiful she had been when she was young . |
| 10 | Each one could have removed his or her name at any time after the first printing and , indeed , two did . |
| 11 | It landed on the floor beside Lavender 's desk and very quickly she ducked down and picked it up and put it into her pencil-box for another time . |
| 12 | Obviously a married woman ca n't just get up from her chair at that time of the evening and announce that she 's going out . |
| 13 | His glance raked her from head to foot before he even moved further and she could see that he thought her very decadent to be in her housecoat at this time in the morning . |
| 14 | looked down at her feet as she walked , finally admitted , a little ashamedly , that it was all true ; " I was wild , " she agreed in her slow , low voice , nodding , Graham felt a sort of ache then , as he had when Slater first told him ; he wanted to have known her then , to have been a part of her life during that time . |
| 15 | These or other events in her life at this time , even the sad ones like the passing of the first anniversary of her husband 's death , may be the key that will open the door for her to freedom from the prison of grief where she has finished the hard labour of bereavement . |
| 16 | I 've been working on her image for some time now . |
| 17 | ‘ All the people who worked with Laura in those years experienced the rough edge of her humour at some time or other , usually when you were so run down and exhausted , after four or five days travelling with no proper sleep , that you could not fight back . ’ |
| 18 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to ‘ have a go ’ and the placement went ahead . |
| 19 | Head Edward Norris said : ‘ Our thoughts and prayers are with Kelly and her family at this time . |
| 20 | As far as Sarah was concerned Charles was her domain at that time and trespassers were not welcome by the sparky redhead who applied her competitive instincts to the men in her life . |
| 21 | Her mother at one time took in a lodger — and she was later to be raped by the man . |
| 22 | In Ayr , they lived in a little thatched cottage and Bel obtained employment as a washer-woman to support herself and her son , albeit in the dire poverty of her class in that time . |
| 23 | The Sheikha settled herself in the dressing room , determined not to be too far away from her son at any time . |