Example sentences of "she [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then at two or three after midnight , a stack of dishes in the sink promising her a greasy good morning , Martin would feel drunkenly randy and she fought first her tiredness then her ( unreasonable ? ) anger when the next evening was the same . |
| 2 | She rose first , searching out her sheets and knotting them indifferently about her torso . |
| 3 | I certainly appreciate the good work done by the establishment in my hon. Friend 's constituency which she mentioned first ; but I would point out that the Towngate theatre in Basildon also puts on some interesting performances — by Opera 80 and the Second Stride dance company , for instance . |
| 4 | She found first gear and was about to let the clutch out when suddenly he was at the door beside her . |
| 5 | Such dreams were defeated by the means she 'd first thought would make it possible for her baby to be returned to her . |
| 6 | And the day , not long afterwards , when she 'd first heard someone call her father crazy . |
| 7 | Even Benny had looked green when she 'd first seen it , and Benny had had time to get used to the idea . |
| 8 | Very fat , stouter even than when she 'd first arrived , with a great soft moon face and little spectacles which looked lost . |
| 9 | The big library was where she 'd first met him . |
| 10 | Mr Gibbon had been an industrialist whose firm had employed the ad agency which Aunt Ilsa had worked for when she 'd first moved to London . |
| 11 | Finally she returned to the information desk where she 'd first encountered him the previous day , and found a pretty young woman sitting there stacking up guide books on Dublin . |
| 12 | In here , he seemed younger than she 'd first assumed . |
| 13 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 14 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 15 | When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant . |
| 16 | ‘ I have a question , ’ whispered the penguin , feeling as small as the day she 'd first slid into the waves . |
| 17 | That was when she 'd first decided to try to make up to her father for what he 'd lost . |
| 18 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 19 | Isabel looked up at him quickly , startled anew as she realised he was much younger than she 'd first supposed . |
| 20 | Starting to panic , she turned her bag upside-down — and the situation was a great deal worse than she 'd first feared . |
| 21 | There was a good , steady wage , and a proper job was more than she had ever hoped for when she 'd first noticed the advertisement written in felt-tip in the corner of one of the windows . |
| 22 | And for the second time since she 'd first met him , he turned on his heel and left her , his blistering words still seeming to echo in the very air around her . |
| 23 | Somehow she doubted whether sharing with Sandra the fact that she already did regret the day she 'd first laid eyes on Matthew would be helpful to anyone . |
| 24 | But oh , he had set her heart to racing the instant she 'd first seen him . |
| 25 | You know when er the fir when we went up to Edith 's , when she 'd first moved in , for |
| 26 | She began to get smaller at once and , very carefully , she ate first from one hand , then from the other , until she was about twenty-five centimetres high . |
| 27 | It was cigar smoke she noticed first always — every time a slight , pleasurable stinging of the eyes . |
| 28 | Today at the Grosvenor House hotel in London she came first in the Webb Ivory fundraising awards … but she says winning prizes was never her goal . |
| 29 | She would not , was the gist of what she communicated first . |
| 30 | She nodded first to the table and then to the ewer on the window ledge . |