Example sentences of "[verb] her first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gillian arranged to meet her first date in Leicester Square . |
| 2 | She described her first heartbreak meeting with a woman dying of AIDS , her body , racked by infections , visibly wasting away . |
| 3 | Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox . |
| 4 | And without Maurice , Shirley , two months ago , probably would n't have won her first honour . |
| 5 | Emma still did not know her first name . |
| 6 | Her management — under the Svengali-like leadership of agent Terry Blamey — capitalised with a succession of public appearances and chat show interviews , including a lavish champagne party to launch her first LP , called simply ‘ Kylie ’ . |
| 7 | Having to rely on staff Directors in-between other assignments , she found her first choice , Paddy Russell , unavailable at the last moment , and second choice , Richard Martin , only free for one episode . |
| 8 | ‘ Fired — dismissed , ’ she offered a couple of alternatives — only to find that he found her first offering of more interest . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's only saving her money , ’ I sprang to Ellen 's defence , ‘ so she has something to live on while she writes her first novel . ’ |
| 10 | Liberal Democrat candidate Rosamund Jordan holds her first phone-in for voters today . |
| 11 | Ruth did not enjoy her first night on board . |
| 12 | Chart star TASMIN ARCHER hates her first name and prefers to be called Angela … |
| 13 | Reverend Pinkerton will conduct her first service on this Sunday . |
| 14 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech for a bride enjoying her first marriage to a divorced man . ) |
| 15 | Sir Charles Morrison , Mr Simon Parker-Bowles , and Norman Squires , and his wife , the latter was enjoying her first visit to London ! |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , yes , I did , ’ she told him , feeling ridiculously pleased that he was clearly enjoying her first attempt at baking a cake . |
| 17 | SWIMMING : Kornelia Ender , winner of four gold medals and a silver at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , will make her first appearance in Britain when she competes in the Edinburgh International Meet from April 16-18 . |
| 18 | KATRIN KRABBE , the double world sprint champion , will make her first appearance of the outdoor season in Germany next month , one day before the International Amateur Athletics Federation meet in Toronto to discuss the lifting of the four-year ban imposed on her because of alleged irregularities in a urine sample . |
| 19 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 20 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 21 | It was impossible to hide her excitement as his casual question seemed to confirm her first impression that the painting which had captured her attention was in truth an original . |
| 22 | All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane . |
| 23 | Sweden appointed her first military attachés , to Paris and St Petersburg , in 1858 . |
| 24 | She hurried out of the room , before the astonished Victorine had completed her first sentence of protest . |
| 25 | Julie , 23 , pictured , who lives in Mossley Hill but is originally from Sunderland , has just completed her first year at Alsop Wilkinson after law studies at Birmingham Polytechnic and Chester Law School . |
| 26 | She got on so well with composer Jeff Wayne that he is also producing her first solo album . |
| 27 | And the teachers who selected her for the post make it very clear that it was Emily 's ability not her sex that made her first choice . |
| 28 | Shortly after our stepfather died , our mother , Lydia , made her first leap across the Pacific to live with a Javanese guru in Jakarta , and brought back tales which inspired our first visits to Indonesia , as delegates to a Subud conference . |
| 29 | Mlle Adjani , who made her first film , Faustine , at the age of 16 and is best known for The Story of Adele H , is now working on new film projects and promoting Christian Dior . |
| 30 | Carole Ann Ford made her first film appearance at the age of eight , retired to school for a few years , and then emerged again at fifteen , working constantly thereafter until her landing of the part of Susan Foreman in the Summer of 1963 . |