Example sentences of "she was [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was riding in the first day of the Tythrop Horse Trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire when the accident happened . |
| 2 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 3 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 4 | Ferdinando came to his wife in such an open way that she was reminded of the first advances he had ever made and she was stirred in a way she believed no longer possible . |
| 5 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |