Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This was the first sentence in her French lesson-book . ) |
| 2 | Liz attempted her first sketch of her mother , her first outline for the outside world of the domestic ghost with which she had lived so long : Alix spoke of her relief at escaping from the small boarding school world in which her parents and her contemporaries all knew one another far too well : Esther conjured up visions of both deprivation and splendour in her own past . |
| 3 | She dried the udder and pulled the three-legged stool across , jamming the first bucket between her knees as she sat down , so that Florence could not kick it over . |
| 4 | With a little moan of fear she scrambled out of the car and raced to the house to hammer on the door , but it opened at the first blow from her fist . |
| 5 | In the first part of her reign she relied mainly upon the Antwerp money-market , where her debts in 1560 exceeded £272,000 . |
| 6 | Although the majority of individuals have a high-grade stenosis , this lady had marked irregularity of the first part of her left anterior descending vessel , with a narrowed perforator branch , angiographic features of thrombus but without vessel occlusion . |
| 7 | Katherine sat back in the train 's cushioned seats and as it pulled away from the platform , she breathed a sigh of relief The first part of her plan had been safely accomplished . |
| 8 | He ignored the first part of her statement . |
| 9 | Margaret came to Scottish Amicable in February 1948 after being with Cadbury 's Scottish depot for the first part of her career . |
| 10 | The first part of her illustrated lecture was scheduled for 10–11 a.m. , followed by a coffee break , and then further slides and questions from 11.30 to noon . |
| 11 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 12 | In this case , Brenda not only accommodates to her father 's language variety ( Standard English , in terms of syntax ) but actually echoes his words in agreement in the first part of her turn . |
| 13 | She then immediately switches back to Creole to " link up " with the first part of her turn . |
| 14 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 15 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 16 | At the end of the first term of her third year , Robyn resigned from all her commitments in order to prepare for Finals . |
| 17 | Clare watched her sobbing , and waited until the first violence of her emotion had passed . |
| 18 | The sophistication and range of this style of cooking grew , as Sheila describes in the first chapter of her book . |
| 19 | The Complete Recordings 1933 — 1940 ( Affinity ) , an exemplary new set of eight CDs , tells the first chapter of her story on record . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid this tunic is a little on the tight side , ’ she told Marianne at the first fitting of her costume , after tugging ineffectually at the zip on the shimmery silver material . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Madonna 's first movie under her Maverick Productions deal with Warners will be titled Snake Eyes , co-starring Harvey Keitel . |
| 22 | A living fossil gives the first interview in her career , and describes life as it was when she first roamed the Earth |
| 23 | Thereafter , Franco began to make a rhetorical distinction between the war against the United Kingdom and the United States , in which Spain took no part , and the war against the Soviet Union , which , in Franco 's view , was a new crusade against communism , of which Nationalist Spain had already fought the first battle during her Civil War . |
| 24 | The section on middle age and ageing in Williams 's ( 1979 ) first edition of her psychology of women reader contained a literary piece by Sontag on double standards in social perceptions of age , and a paper on anthropological studies of the experience of menopause in women in different cultures . |
| 25 | By this time Lehzen ‘ occupied the first place in her pupil 's thoughts and affections ’ ( Esher ) . |
| 26 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 27 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 28 | If it was claustrophobia this was its first appearance in her life . |
| 29 | And no doubt the most well-suited outfit in her wardrobe for her first meeting with her employer , Mrs Foster , scheduled for later this afternoon . |
| 30 | And skipped off towards Maisie who , at the first sound of her mother 's footsteps , had concealed her cache of sweets under her jersey . |