Example sentences of "first [noun] she [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally personal is Janet Smith 's The World Outside My Window , the first piece she has made since disbanding her company and the first in a long time that she has made to please herself . |
| 2 | By sheer good luck , the first desk she had tried had informed her that yes , a Lori Templeton was booked on to one of their flights . |
| 3 | The first sermon she preached reiterated the message . |
| 4 | The first discovery she had made on return was that she had forgotten to take the cheesecake out of the freezer . |
| 5 | What that word represented had begun to grow in her from almost the very first moment she had seen him . |
| 6 | She knew that now , had known it from the very first moment she had met him , however more comfortable it would have been to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain . |
| 7 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 8 | She had thought of him as Roman since the first moment she had known his name . |
| 9 | From their very first meeting she had known he was a man in control of himself and his life . |
| 10 | It was the first remark she had volunteered all evening . |
| 11 | Even her first husband she had regained from that dreadful hinterland of marsh and bog and storm cloud : and now they were good friends , she and Edgar , in the sunlight , harmlessly friends , and on some subjects ( the National Health Service , the pathology of multiple murderers , the ethics of reporting violent crime ) had struck up alliances that excluded , that increasingly and dramatically excluded , her husband Charles . |
| 12 | Mind you , I think she were a bit frugal with truth when she said that first lad she 'd gone with and she got pregnant . |
| 13 | As her business grew , the first copier she had rented from Clydesdale Office Equipment was not equal to the demands made on it , and Clydesdale recommended replacement with a more powerful machine . |
| 14 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 15 | His grey whipcord coat with its black velvet collar hung open , and he came quickly across with that purposeful step which was one of the first things she had noticed about him . |
| 16 | This was the first chance she 'd had to wear them ; last night things had been too fraught to think of dressing up , and now they were her only adornment . |
| 17 | On her first night she went to eat at Rosalie 's , the cheap restaurant Epstein had recommended . |
| 18 | The first night she had slept there she had known . |
| 19 | At the first hedge she tried to clear . ’ |
| 20 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 21 | Marie told me I should n't leave it on when I ai n't in the room , and here I am — the first day she 's gone and I 've gone and left it on . |
| 22 | After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better . |
| 23 | ‘ For the first month she had to sleep on the settee , and I lay on the floor beside her . |
| 24 | In fact , she sounded particularly cheerful ; it was the first morning she had woken up with no trace of sickness , and was cheered at the thought of entering the ‘ blooming ’ phase of pregnancy . |
| 25 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 26 | The first week she 'd signed on , her lover had packed her in and moved out . |
| 27 | Well why ca n't she do that two weeks marking in that first week she needs to unwind ? |
| 28 | It was , he thought , the first mistake she had made . |
| 29 | It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace . |
| 30 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |