Example sentences of "[vb pp] her first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And without Maurice , Shirley , two months ago , probably would n't have won her first honour . |
| 2 | She hurried out of the room , before the astonished Victorine had completed her first sentence of protest . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | McCool was omitted from the afternoon singles along with National champion Eavan Higgins so that Hazel Kavanagh of Grange could be given her first match in the tournament and Barbara Hackett from Castletroy her second outing . |
| 5 | ROYAL decorator Nina Campbell has written her first book . |
| 6 | She has just written her first screenplay , an adaptation of Jane Austen 's Sense And Sensibility . |
| 7 | He served on a number of local commissions , but seems to have failed to secure inclusion in the commission of the peace until the accession of Elizabeth I , when he was also made her first sheriff of Surrey and Sussex . |
| 8 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 9 | By the age of twenty-four she had published her second novel , given birth to and buried a second daughter , buried her first son , given birth to a second , and received a letter describing the death by drowning and the cremation of her husband . |
| 10 | She 'd had her first transfusions and was preparing to go to the hospital for her next one when world events took over . |
| 11 | She was aware that her mother had already had her first drink , and was on to her second , if not third glass of wine , if the bottle was anything to go by . |
| 12 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 13 | Speaking of kidding , my golden guernsey goatling , Passion , has produced her first kid . |
| 14 | He had never used her first name before , she realised , and the lilting sound of it on his lips sent a knife-sharp thrust of awareness through her , taking away any power to reply to his last words . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it was during this period , just after her son was born , when Rose had opened her first shop . |
| 16 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 17 | She has just sold her first novel to Doubleday , and she is at work on another . |
| 18 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 19 | Preston shook his head , but it was true that within a few weeks of Mary Moxton 's death William 's mum had bought her first shop . |
| 20 | Loops of wiring and cable ran overhead , loosely tacked at intervals to the unpainted ceiling ; it was the kind of Who cares , no-one 'll see it protocol that had applied behind the scenes in the shopping mall where she 'd landed her first Saturday job . |
| 21 | Avril , 49 , who 'd divorced her first husband in 1987 after 20 years of marriage , first met Peter through their local church in Saltburn , near Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | She had divorced her first husband because he showed signs of becoming like her father , and now , at her second attempt , the man she had married , while not apparently planning to emulate her parent , yet found him admirable . |
| 23 | As soon as the female has laid her first egg , the male leaves her . |
| 24 | A four year old girl who 's undergone a revolutionary heart transplant operation has spent her first day at school . |
| 25 | After she 'd taken her first sip , she said : ‘ Play it — go ahead , ’ and sat on the bed to listen where she would n't have to meet his eye . |
| 26 | The missing minister was Mrs Lynda Chalker ( Overseas Aid ) , who for years has retained her first husband in her name , since Lynda Landa sounds like an entry for the Eurovision song contest . |
| 27 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 28 | It was Louisa as much as the doctor who supervised the carrying of Emilia into the Hall , holding her cold hand , murmuring small phrases of consolation and encouragement as the improvised litter was lifted carefully up the stairs and the invalid laid in the same bed where she had passed her first night at Easterness . |
| 29 | She had passed her first Challenge ! |
| 30 | Miss Cairns , who sang on the latest Fish album , recently released her first album Picture Within on her husband 's Progress record label . |