Example sentences of "[vb past] she [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 3 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 4 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 5 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 6 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 9 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 10 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
| 11 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 12 | I doubt he gave her a second thought , once he 'd pulled his trousers back on and ushered her into the first available taxi . |