Example sentences of "time she [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 2 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 3 | Jessamy remembered all the times she had seen him look like that in the past , when he had n't wanted her to know what he was thinking or feeling . |
| 4 | Mother Francis knew it must be part of his divine plan , but at times she wondered had she prayed hard enough , had she examined every possibility . |
| 5 | it keeps no record of wrongs or times she has told him to wipe his feet . |
| 6 | By the time she had made it downstairs , she felt pretty awful — hot and aching and nauseous , with the most terrible pain hanging excruciatingly over one side of her face . |
| 7 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 8 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 9 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |
| 10 | For the first time she had met him a flush darkened the back of his neck . |
| 11 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 12 | By the time she had eaten it and cleared away the dishes , dusk was beginning to fall . |
| 13 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 14 | Thoroughly spoiled , her mama had said sadly , the last time she had seen her . |
| 15 | It was the first time she had seen him really abashed . |
| 16 | She went over and over the last time she had seen him . |
| 17 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 18 | The last time she had seen it was in Elise 's studio . |
| 19 | This was the first time she had addressed him directly since take off . |
| 20 | For a long time she had thought they referred to a mother and a female baby bear . |
| 21 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 22 | It was the first time she had left him before dawn . |
| 23 | By the time she had finished she had it clearly in her mind what she must do . |
| 24 | From time to time she had to pull him up . |
| 25 | By the time she had parked she was twenty minutes late and quite beyond caring . |
| 26 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 27 | She usually so high and bright , a breezy chatter of her day in class , but now ; her work , the tawse , the first time she had used it , her tearful minute victims , she did not feel herself at all . |
| 28 | ‘ She knows my name ! ’ he commented wryly , and at that moment Leith realised that that was the first time she had used it . |
| 29 | Her funeral was the first time she 'd worn them . |
| 30 | It was the first time she 'd heard her speak . |