Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 2 | I said I reckoned she got her oar in first and thought I 'm gon na |
| 3 | When he went back into the room , she got her word in first . |
| 4 | ‘ Henri should stick to making soup , ’ Mandy said , obviously not liking her position as first with the news being usurped . |
| 5 | Nine patients did not give their number of sexual partners and one of them did not tell her age at first intercourse . |
| 6 | His sharp question brought a flush to the face of the man who was so insistent upon helping Jenna , and she decided to get her word in first in view of Alain 's forbidding looks . |
| 7 | She said her dad at first ‘ hated the idea of me modelling ’ but was now really proud . |
| 8 | Bernard refused her offer at first ; he did not think her English was fluent enough . |
| 9 | Daisy Smith said : ‘ We could n't find her pulse at first . |