Example sentences of "[vb past] she [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time .
2 ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful .
3 In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university .
4 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 .
5 Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place .
6 She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’
7 ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’
8 His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman .
9 It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him .
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