Example sentences of "first time [conj] she [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Next morning , for the first time since she had started at G.W. , she arrived late , almost too terrified to step across the threshold . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was the direction of her life she was questioning , for the first time since she had settled on a career . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She could see it in his face , his guard , for the first time since she 'd known him , completely lowered . |
| 18 | For the first time since she iced her Dad , Jazzbeaux felt she really had a purpose on this dull earth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was not , of course , the first time that she had exercised the powers of Regent , but on this particular occasion she knew that she would have to deal with a new constitutional structure in which it was envisaged that she would merely be informed by the Ministers and would take no decisions on her own . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She had only passed her driving test after her marriage and this was the first time that she had driven unaccompanied by night . |
| 23 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 24 | It was the first time that she had forgotten the place of the Arab 's wife . |
| 25 | It was the first time that she had ever felt sorry for anyone . |
| 26 | It was the first time that she had seen Johnny dressed in full uniform . |
| 27 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 28 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 29 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 30 | It was the first time that she had ever told anyone of what had happened . |