Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] her first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 2 | One girl remembers her first impression of her foster father : ‘ He had Sephardi eyes , like my mother . |
| 3 | So taboos may exist which prohibit social intercourse between a man and a young girl having her first menstruation , or between females and a young male who has just reached puberty , because there is strong unconscious , or even conscious , desire to have sexual relations with the girls or boys ( incest ) . |
| 4 | A fifteen-year-old girl having her first baby is twice as likely to live at the poverty level than a nineteen-year-old first-time mother . |
| 5 | He had sat opposite her , watching her while she ate , making an extravagant moue of distaste when she suggested that he share it , but staring at her with a concentrated , almost angry , satisfaction ; rather , she thought , as a mother might watch a convalescent child taking her first mouthful . |
| 6 | Martha Blend had her first sight of a new foster mother in the cavernous waiting room at Liverpool Street Station : |
| 7 | Bush too was being realistic when he made his move to stage her first live concerts . |
| 8 | A young farmer 's wife having her first batch of butter er rejected . |
| 9 | The smell hit her first . |
| 10 | This can occur with the mare having her first foal . |
| 11 | By the end of the year she was rewriting the record books as — with her UK sales alone more than 2 million — she became the first female artist to have her first five singles go silver . |
| 12 | And I think you might remember that my ‘ Jottings ’ have been in the paper since long before your grandmother had her first G.I. in the War . |
| 13 | Lindsey gave up all pretence at jogging as she grasped the rail to get her first glimpse of Madeira . |
| 14 | Its partners include two women whose dedication is such that Mrs Anne Elliott even worked in the morning before going into hospital in the afternoon to have her first baby . |
| 15 | ( Short , happy , slightly humorous speech for a bride enjoying her first marriage to a divorced man . ) |
| 16 | Having lost in the first round to Sarah Lochrie , 7–5 , 6–4 , she then fought her way back into the tournament to beat Jasmine Choudhury 7–5 , 6–3 in the semis and Felicia D'Amelio 2–6 , 6–4 , 6–4 in the final to take her first national title . |
| 17 | Wasp conducted her first combat mission on August 17 when sixteen F4Fs and fifteen SBD Dauntless dive-bombers were launched . |
| 18 | When children start school , they often develop all kinds of minor illnesses as they first become exposed to a large community ; a fact the nurse seeking her first employment after the birth of her child may not know . |
| 19 | A volunteer who had lately returned from China where she had seen another aspect of the refugee problem spent her first evening at Dovercourt simply observing the children . |
| 20 | She made her London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1963 and in the same year sang her first Angel in Gerontius with the Hallé Orchestra , a work with which she became closely associated . |
| 21 | She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child . |
| 22 | Then , in 1982 , the then fledgling Century published her first novel , Light a Penny Candle ; she has been a bestseller every since . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |
| 25 | ‘ A very nervous poodle having her first puppies , ’ he explained . |
| 26 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |
| 27 | AFTER her second husband Stefano Casiraghi 's death , many thought that Princess Caroline would ditch her plea to the Pope to have her first marriage annulled . |