Example sentences of "[verb] for 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Four weeks pregnant , she was standing in line waiting to pay for her first maternity dress when things began to go wrong . |
| 9 | At sixteen , having taken her Higher School Certificate , she was already preparing for her first MD examination . |
| 10 | If he had n't posted bail for her she would now be preparing for her first night in jail . |
| 11 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |