Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Jo 's memories of her war-time evacuation from London to foster homes in the country which stimulated her first work in phototherapy . |
| 2 | Lynn says … she could n't have wished for a bigger meeting in which to make her first run for Britain … she 's been training hard since the end of the track season and is in good form |
| 3 | The 24 texts which comprise her first work , Tropismes ( 1939 ) , are in fact closer to prose poems than traditional narrative . |
| 4 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 5 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 6 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 7 | A week later she made her first score from a dealer in Times Square . |
| 8 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 9 | Mlle Adjani , who made her first film , Faustine , at the age of 16 and is best known for The Story of Adele H , is now working on new film projects and promoting Christian Dior . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's only saving her money , ’ I sprang to Ellen 's defence , ‘ so she has something to live on while she writes her first novel . ’ |
| 11 | Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox . |
| 12 | She described her first heartbreak meeting with a woman dying of AIDS , her body , racked by infections , visibly wasting away . |
| 13 | Having to rely on staff Directors in-between other assignments , she found her first choice , Paddy Russell , unavailable at the last moment , and second choice , Richard Martin , only free for one episode . |
| 14 | Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 15 | She says her first question when the baby is born will be : ‘ Is everything okay ? |
| 16 | Liz will provide the voice-over for baby Little Maggie when she says her first word — ‘ Daddy ! ’ |
| 17 | Where family planning is not widely practised , as in the overwhelming majority of developing countries , the age at which a woman first marries or enters a conjugal union determines in large measure the age at which she bears her first child . |
| 18 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 19 | Staring at the rain , she recalled her first conversation with Emilia , how they had discussed The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and the woman had protested a righteous indignation at the thought of a wife deserting her husband . |
| 20 | She recalled her first meeting with Michael Stein , when he had admitted to possessing drugs in the Far East . |
| 21 | Bao Van Brandenburg started her career in jewellery design in Geneva , where she opened her first boutique in 1978 . |
| 22 | ‘ Not the best shoes for a day out , ’ remarked Brown Owl as she opened her first aid kit . |
| 23 | I shall take Zoe back to Lourdes as soon as she takes her first step as I know she will . |
| 24 | Now eleven years on , she is still teased and when to her dismay she gets her first period , the girls start chanting and throwing tampons at her . |
| 25 | She breastfed her first child for more than a year . |
| 26 | ‘ We could n't believe it when she took her first step five months later , ’ Mrs Hamlet said . |
| 27 | Then , with some breaks ( nothing from 1918 , 1922 and 1923 ) , we go through to 1924 , when at Covent Garden she sang her first Marschallin on stage , making history and her house début at the same time . |
| 28 | Vee Clark has written to say she bought her first knitting machine from Julia 18 months ago and has been very happy to have her help on more than one occasion . |
| 29 | She bought her first antique when she was just a teenager — an Edwardian bed for £8 , slightly less than her weekly wage at the time . |
| 30 | Two years ago , Mrs Edwards , who preferred her first name Grace to Mattie , travelled to Israel with fellow church members . |