Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 2 | PROUD DAD : Alan beams — but Chloe sleeps through her first public appearance Pictures : HARRY PAGE |
| 3 | She will be paid £4.5 million for the follow-up , compared with the £1.5 million she got for her first Disney singing-nun movie . |
| 4 | With sufficient work completed for her first show , Vanessa had exhausted her theme and recovered her interest in the living . |
| 5 | From a medical viewpoint , a woman is considered during her first pregnancy as a primigravida and , during her subsequent pregnancies , as a multigravida . |
| 6 | She could hardly believe it , and she could not wait for her next consultation to see what was going to happen next . |
| 7 | Then the Queen headed for her next destination . |
| 8 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 9 | Earlier Sabatini , the top seed , moved into her fourth final of the year with a 6–3 , 6–2 victory against Brenda Schultz , of Holland , while Martinez , the fifth seed , beat compatriot Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6–4 , 7–5 . |
| 10 | She heard the sharp intake of breath ; what little patience he possessed had clearly vanished with her last smart remark . |
| 11 | Lonely and feeling sorry for herself , she regularly wandered from her second floor apartment to the kitchens to chat to the staff . |
| 12 | He coined the Latin phrase , which the Queen used in her 40th anniversary speech at the Guildhall , in a letter to her expressing sympathy over the Windsor Castle fire . |
| 13 | She realised that he had n't ever responded to her first mildly scolding words as they left the Hamiltons ' . |
| 14 | He had n't responded to her last shout . |
| 15 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 16 | At one point Marjory had persuaded herself she would not get into Oxford and was resigned to her second choice , Royal Holloway and Bedford , which has a big history department . |
| 17 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 18 | He would like to have gone more fully into the subject which was second in interest in his mind to Walter Machin — Viola Machin , and the way she had come by her second husband . |
| 19 | If Tom Reynolds was devastated by her next words , it was no more than she was herself . |
| 20 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 21 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 22 | When Jean 's turn came for her third , she fully expected it to be as straightforward as Billy and Berta , but in the last week she got a lot of bleeding . |
| 23 | Ghislaine collects £80,000 a year from a trust fund set up by her father , who died after falling off his yacht named after her last November . |
| 24 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 25 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 26 | The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night . |
| 27 | A Cardiff woman , aged 35 in 1939 , suffered from decayed teeth , bronchitis every winter and a prolapsed uterus dating from her second pregnancy , yet she did not consider herself ill . |
| 28 | One does n't have to start capsize drill in a closed cockpit and Ms Wynne-Freer contradicts the statements in her fourth paragraph with those made in her tenth . |
| 29 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 30 | He might be back to normal , but Robbie had n't forgotten the way he 'd turned on her last night . |