Example sentences of "her first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her prayers were eventually answered , but after the birth of her first longed-for child she had four more . |
| 2 | She may have been totally unprepared but she still managed to win her first round match quite comfortably . |
| 3 | Durie limped off court after five games of her first round match with Mary Joe Fernandez in Brighton two weeks ago . |
| 4 | Alas , the arias she recorded with the Philharmonia for Columbia ( 4/58 ) disappeared from the catalogue long ago , but her first complete opera set , Puccini 's La fanciulla del West , issued in May 1959 , has now been reissued on CD ( 4/92 ) . |
| 5 | Before The Ring Culshaw , Nilsson and Björling had come together in 1961 to record her first complete Verdi role , Amelia in Un ballo in maschera . |
| 6 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 7 | But this was her first personal encounter with such a craft . |
| 8 | On her first official visit to Derbyshire in fourteen years , Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother , President of the National Trust , received a royal welcome at Calke Abbey in May . |
| 9 | They also made the evening gown for her first official engagement , a charity gala in the city of London , which created almost as big a sensation as the dress which graced St Paul 's Cathedral a few months later . |
| 10 | A DECISION was being taken today on whether the 92-year-old Queen Mother , newly released from hospital , can immediately get back to work by attending her first official engagement , scheduled for tomorrow . |
| 11 | The Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna made her first practical contribution to the improvement of conditions in the countryside when she asked Nikolai Miliutin to tell her how to free the serfs on her Ukrainian estate of Karlovka . |
| 12 | Lucky , a magical dragon pup , is the hero of The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup ( Walker , £9.99 ) , Rosemary Sutcliff 's first picture book and her first posthumous publication . |
| 13 | The young reader , tackling his or her first Famous Five or Secret Seven book , encounters a story of breathtaking originality and excitement . |
| 14 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 15 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |
| 16 | It was too soon to be fitzAlan , she told herself , reason overwhelming her first impulsive hope . |
| 17 | The latter victory was also somewhat remarkable as Cordwell , who is ranked one place above Reggi in 19th , was playing her first serious singles match since a back injury forced her out for the game almost six months ago . |
| 18 | LOUISE STUART faces her first serious test of the summer track season in the Northern Championships at Blackpool this weekend having completed her final exams at Newcastle Polytechnic yesterday . |
| 19 | Her first upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in 1988 had shown more than 20 polyps , between 0.5 mm and 5 mm in size . |
| 20 | As a child of 11 , she had one which featured with her in her first professional engagement , as Dorothy in The Wiz , the all-black version of The Wizard of Oz , at the Sheffield Crucible . |
| 21 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 22 | Her first professional appearance at the Liverpool Playhouse in A Midsummer Night 's Dream — reflecting her classical training . |
| 23 | Her first professional appearance was in Montreal with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens , with whom she stayed for two years before returning home to use her classically trained talents in summer stock productions of Bye , Bye , Birdie ; Fiorello ; and Blossom Time . |
| 24 | Jennifer , whose meteoric career has earned more than £5 million , burst on the scene reaching the final of her first professional tournament aged just 13 . |
| 25 | Miss Hayes , who lived in a 21-room Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack , acted in her first professional role at the age of six . |
| 26 | Born in Washington on 10 October , 1900 , Miss Hayes had her first professional role at the age of six as Prince Charles in The Royal Family . |
| 27 | Her first naval success was to expel Pausanias from Byzantium ( he had avoided conviction after his recall to Sparta , and had returned to Byzantium ) . |
| 28 | Her assurance has obviously come with age and experience , but there is no doubt that her first major public speech marked a turning point . |
| 29 | EMI Eminence is also promoting completely new orchestral recordings for its mid-price label , and Sian Edwards in her first major recording draws brilliant performances from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra of the three most popular Tchaikovsky overtures , Romeo and Juliet , Francesca da Rimini and 1812 plus Marche Slave . |
| 30 | In her first major television interview since Maxwell 's death a year ago yesterday , Betty also emphatically rejected claims from Home Office pathologist Dr Iain West that her husband committed suicide . |