Example sentences of "[vb past] her first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics in America savagely panned her first big movie , Christopher Columbus : The Discovery . |
| 2 | They had both forgotten Anna 's exceptional hearing but suddenly Anna whispered her first agonised words for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | GEENA DAVIS got her first acting break — by posing in a shop window . |
| 6 | Emma Carrick-Anderson ( Dunblane ) secured her first senior British title by winning the women 's slalom . |
| 7 | She never forgot her first proper view of the château . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | SOPHIE B. HAWKINS landed her first big break after she was sacked by pop rival Bryan Ferry . |
| 10 | AT the weekend , ITV weathergirl Rianna Scipio , 26 , compered her first public event , Fashion Noir , at the Park Lane International Hotel in London 's Earls Court for an audience that included Linford Christie and footballer Ian Wright . |
| 11 | Slide on top of him and slip him into her , gasp with the pleasure and the size of him , warn him to keep still as she reached her first wet climax on top of him , side to side , circular motion , up and down … |
| 12 | Like Dorothy teetering in her ruby slippers on the brink of the Yellow Brick Road , young Kylie took her first tentative steps towards stardom . |
| 13 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 14 | Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court . |
| 15 | In March 1914 she launched her first weekly newspaper , Women 's Dreadnought , organ of her East London Federation of Suffragettes . |
| 16 | Born in Washington on 10 October , 1900 , Miss Hayes had her first professional role at the age of six as Prince Charles in The Royal Family . |
| 17 | SUNDERLAND-BASED Dawn Milligan had her first open winner of the year when home-bred Woodhill Echo bounced back to form to win a high-class £1,000 open at Nottingham . |
| 18 | Priscilla Whiting had her first past-life experience at the age of three , when she remembers looking at her mother and thinking : ‘ You are not my mother . |
| 19 | Jenny , whose summer track activities were curtailed by injury , will be joined in the British team by Suzanne Rigg from Warrington , who gained her first international in the recent World Half-Marathon championships . |
| 20 | Unable to maintain the seclusion policy any longer in the face of strong pressure and superior military strength , Japan concluded her first international agreement in 1854 with the US . |