Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 2 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 3 | Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display . |
| 4 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 5 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 6 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 7 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 8 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 9 | It made her feel slightly sick now ; the satisfying feeling of warmth and lightness she had experienced after the first few glasses had long since disappeared . |
| 10 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 11 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |