Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 2 | With sufficient work completed for her first show , Vanessa had exhausted her theme and recovered her interest in the living . |
| 3 | From a medical viewpoint , a woman is considered during her first pregnancy as a primigravida and , during her subsequent pregnancies , as a multigravida . |
| 4 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 5 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 6 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 7 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 8 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 9 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 10 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 11 | Elaine giggled again , a schoolgirl going on her first date . |
| 12 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 13 | She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’ |
| 14 | Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station . |
| 15 | The only hint of rebellion seems to have been sparked by her first crush on a classmate known only by the name of Grant . |
| 16 | She opened the door and was surprised to find him holding the jodhpurs she had worn during her first ride . |
| 17 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 18 | Diana returned after her first visit to Waco to go about recruiting Manchester Adventists using her father 's church membership lists . |
| 19 | Reason said he could n't possibly have any recollection of a nineteen-year-old nobody he had once caused to be dismissed from her first job , but the knowledge of her bones was stronger . |
| 20 | Buchi Emecheta is best remembered for her first book , In the Ditch , an autobiographical account of life in 1960s London for a young Nigerian woman with five children . |
| 21 | Salt had recovered from her first surprise and was about to launch into a longer attack . |
| 22 | IMMIGRATION into the UK is at its highest for four years , but remains below levels recorded before Mrs Thatcher introduced additional curbs in her first administration . |
| 23 | She relies in her first response on the teacher 's access to the shared visual context to interpret what she says . |
| 24 | The monastery 's right to Pallas was challenged by the Lady Garsinde , wife of Bernard le Velu , who declared that the estate had belonged to her first husband Raymond , from whom count Raymond III had taken it by force . |
| 25 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |
| 26 | It seems likely that the visions of the devils and of Christ that she saw during her first breakdown were actual hallucinations , as were the later seeing of obscenities , and what she called the ‘ flickering ’ of the Sacrament . |
| 27 | What does the patients charter offer to the woman in Wandsworth who last month found that she could not have her second child in the hospital that she chose for her first child because her health authority has no contract with that hospital ? |
| 28 | Sometimes she thought of her first husband and wondered briefly whether gross infidelity was really sufficient cause for divorce and whether faithless men were not perhaps — overall — more amusing than the other sort . |
| 29 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 30 | She knew with her first woman , when she was twenty . |