Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] her first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In 1930 she set off on her first solo long distance flight and broke the record from England to Australia .
2 True the first formers had had to go to bed an hour earlier , but they all voted it was worth it , Gwendoline felt vicious about the whole affair , she 'd determining not to be put off by her first day there .
3 She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl .
4 Coached by her father , John , she was runner up in her first tournament [ the Grampian Closed ] , and this was the start of her rise to her present position as number one in Scotland .
5 Here the tall and lanky Simon Lay , kitted out in high heels and hip hugging skirt , as Chrissie , the shy lass out for her first contest , evokes some sympathy but the character is merely a vehicle to introduce a stream of smutty dialogue into the proceedings .
6 Adisa 's will be back for her first birthday in March .
7 Adisa 's will be back for her first birthday in March .
8 Chewing on a lump of gristle in an effort to render it small enough to pass through her swollen throat , Evelyn thought back over her first meeting with Biff Thacker .
9 Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked .
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