Example sentences of "[verb] her first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EDINBURGH-BASED Rachel McFadden has her first competitive test of current form in Bracknell this weekend at the British modern tetrathlon championships . |
| 2 | She felt like a government health warning , but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all . |
| 3 | Critics in America savagely panned her first big movie , Christopher Columbus : The Discovery . |
| 4 | They had both forgotten Anna 's exceptional hearing but suddenly Anna whispered her first agonised words for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 5 | Yet this is not to say that her contemporaries completely misread her first four novels , nor that they misjudged their merits . |
| 6 | ‘ Sarella ? ’ he murmured , shifting his weight a little to enable her to continue her first tentative exploration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals . |
| 9 | The early years in Tennessee were hard and the family was frequently hungry , but in 1868 Frances , who from her earliest childhood had been a compulsive inventor of romances , sold her first two stories to Godey 's Lady 's Book , raising the money for paper and postage by selling wild grapes . |
| 10 | GEENA DAVIS got her first acting break — by posing in a shop window . |
| 11 | The widow of publisher Robert Maxwell has given her first in-depth interview since leaving her home in England . |
| 12 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 13 | He felt a sharp twinge of guilt now for not taking the trouble to visit , but William 's family had moved to a better neighbourhood when William 's mum had made her first million , and Preston had gradually lost touch . |
| 14 | Emma Carrick-Anderson ( Dunblane ) secured her first senior British title by winning the women 's slalom . |
| 15 | Chris Lysons , Great Harwood 's goalkeeper , will remember her first National League game for different reasons . |
| 16 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 17 | She 's celebrating her first international victory in the women 's doubles at the Spanish Open . |
| 18 | At the time of the Korean War , when Attlee helped to persuade Truman to drop any idea of using the atomic bomb against the Chinese mainland , Britain had not exploded her first nuclear weapon . |
| 19 | She never forgot her first proper view of the château . |
| 20 | She may have been totally unprepared but she still managed to win her first round match quite comfortably . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 23 | SOPHIE B. HAWKINS landed her first big break after she was sacked by pop rival Bryan Ferry . |
| 24 | Though she was passing through what has been called her first industrial revolution , there was as yet little to show for it in the landscape . |
| 25 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 26 | Vons , in turn , became her way out of Midway City , Orange County , the Californian backwater where she spent her first 20 years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Olympic champion Sally Gunnell , having her first individual race of the season , also made a bright start over 400 metres hurdles . |
| 29 | Olympic champion Sally Gunnell , having her first individual race of the season , also made a bright start over 400 metres hurdles . |
| 30 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |