Example sentences of "her [prep] her first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this the Queen returned a gracious reply which while maintaining the full impartiality of the Crown encouraged me to continue to do my best to serve her as her First Minister . |
| 2 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 3 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 4 | The wicked mood of triumphant secret freedom which had come to her after her first performance of careful deliberate lying to Jack had , for the moment at any rate , left her . |
| 5 | The star was shapeless and the candle spattered with glue reminding her of her first efforts . |
| 6 | These , when they hatch , provide her with her first work force . |
| 7 | The shoemaker dances with her in her first excitement and then collapses and turns into a tangle of dead leaves as she tires . |
| 8 | Three cars went by her in her first half-hour on the road . |
| 9 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 10 | The amniocentesis test had proved everything was normal and she had done her best to push into the background the treacherous thoughts about it which had assailed her on her first visit to the gynaecologist . |
| 11 | For instance , if I have a student in my class old enough to be my mother , is it appropriate to call her by her first name ? |
| 12 | Because she disliked it so , he found a fleeting pleasure in calling her by her first name . |