Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan Einzig can also recall the shock and anger she experienced on first seeing this picture . |
| 2 | She tried at first to do so in a properly genteel way , nibbling daintily . |
| 3 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 4 | Baffled by the elderly woman 's total animosity and unreasonable behaviour , she had at first responded by being anxiously deferential — abjectly agreeing to every outrageous demand on her husband 's precious time , despite not seeing very much of him herself . |
| 5 | When she was beginning to cry out for him , while he still hovered over her , taunting her with the prospect of even now being denied what she had at first fought against , he demanded her verbal surrender too . |