Example sentences of "[conj] her first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stillmans moved to Florence in 1878 , whence she continued to send work regularly to exhibitions in Britain and the USA , where her first appearance in 1875 had drawn favourable notice from the novelist and art amateur Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | Dr Sharon Camp , who edited the Index , said : ‘ A child born in Mozambique today can expect to live only 48 years and has a one in seven chance of dying before his or her first birthday . |
| 3 | It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language . |
| 4 | According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English . |
| 5 | I reasoned that this was where I would find a small breeder advertising his or her first clutches of chicks for sale — someone who was n't big enough to justify advertising all year round . |
| 6 | Not that her first part could have been improved upon that much . |
| 7 | Buzz decided that her first priority was to see Elinor again . |
| 8 | She ‘ stoutly defended ’ her new home , saying that her first husband ‘ was no husband for her , and the one that worked for her she respected ’ . |
| 9 | Do you know , she 's got the idea that her first husband would like to marry her again ! ’ |
| 10 | One adoptive parent told her adopted daughter that her first mother was just like the brown paper parcel the child came in . |
| 11 | Linda Cullen asserts that her first book will not be her last , good I hope the next one is on the way . |
| 12 | When war was first declared , and she was co-opted into the military , he imagined that her first reaction had been that it was typical of these men to mess up her promising career like that . |
| 13 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 14 | She knew that her husband was well past it and that she herself was beyond the age of childbearing , so her first reaction was to laugh . |
| 15 | Merrill slept late on Sunday morning , and her first concern was for Richard . |
| 16 | Eleanor 's husband had secured his first lectureship , and her first novel had been acclaimed in literary circles . |
| 17 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 18 | It was a line that began with the excavation work at the Heavenite observatory and her first trip in the TARDIS ( how could you forget the TARDIS ? ) , continued with a confused recollection of pointing a gun at the Doctor in a tunnel somewhere , and ended on Sakkrat ( Sakkrat ? |
| 19 | She was in an advanced state of pregnancy and her first child was born on the spot by caesarean section . |
| 20 | Jacqueline was already pregnant , and her first child , was born soon after , defying medical concerns about her robustness for giving birth . |
| 21 | For Ruth had been married to Connor 's brother Sean , and her first child — a fine boy called Danny — had been born four years ago . |
| 22 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
| 23 | She was first elected branch representative in 1978 and her first involvement at Area Council level was in 1981 . |
| 24 | It was afternoon before Marian awoke and her first thought was of the body lying face downward on the grass . |
| 25 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 26 | She stared into that tough face and her first thought was , Do you ? |
| 27 | She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat . |
| 28 | The girl is eventually divorced and will return to her parents and her first love . |
| 29 | Topaz knew that he was teasing her and her first nervousness was gone . |
| 30 | Mrs Aquino also hinted that her Vice-President , Mr Salvador Laurel , and her first cousin and a Marcos associate , Mr Eduardo Cojuangco , were involved in the plot . |