Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 3 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 4 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 6 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 7 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 8 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 9 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 10 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 11 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 12 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 13 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 14 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 15 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 16 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 17 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
| 18 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 19 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 20 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 21 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 22 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 23 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 24 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 27 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 28 | Had he done wrong in inviting her in the first place ? |
| 29 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 30 | I have n't asked her since the first time . |