Example sentences of "she first [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested . |
| 2 | She still had the pearls , but there had been many tears since she first wore them . |
| 3 | But I had a very nasty moment when she first told me . ’ |
| 4 | and from the Exea , Exeter College where she first knew me , so |
| 5 | She did tell me that when she first saw him , he reminded her of her grandfather back in New Delhi . |
| 6 | His mother had been silent when she first saw it , and his father had been angry at the lack of enthusiasm and had arranged to take Stuart fishing for a day to a small loch where he could borrow a boat . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's like Balanchine , ’ cried an American dancer when she first discovered them . |
| 8 | Since Gertrude was only 16 when she first met him , she was , of course , chaperoned all the time . |
| 9 | She first met him when she studied at Trinity College , Dublin , as he neared the end of his degree course . |
| 10 | Mrs Fermor-Hesketh said when she first met him she thought he was ‘ dotty , loud and pompous but relatively harmless ’ . |
| 11 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 12 | Washed in shadow he looked as mysterious as when she first met him . |
| 13 | Tony was with his mother when she first met them in the street . |
| 14 | Because when she first had it , she loved it . |
| 15 | When they first came to this country — like my mum , when she first came she said she could n't find a place to live because people did n't want black people on their premises . |
| 16 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |
| 17 | ‘ As I remember it , on the occasion when she first accosted us , you told her that she would be better off at home with a baby on her knee . ’ |
| 18 | Seventy five year old Reg Potter finally convinced the love of his life to marry him … fifty years after she first turned him down . |
| 19 | Despite her pleas Raja Pala insisted he would only return her wings if she first bore him a child , whose eyes might always remind him of the world she came from . |
| 20 | She had been working with IMP for just under a year now and had managed to contribute significantly to their joint effort , so she did n't feel quite as inadequate as she had when she first joined them . |
| 21 | Sort of three pounds for a couple of little , little pairs of knickers and that and that 's a lot when you think they when she first starts she 's gon na be getting through seven or eight pairs a day . |
| 22 | I did n't like them when she first put them up |