Example sentences of "her [noun sg] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 2 | Her opponent in the first round of the matchplay today is Ada O'Sullivan of Ireland . |
| 3 | Clara pointed out that it had n't been donated by her father in the first place , but by Aunt Doris , as birthday presents , over the past seventeen years . |
| 4 | By and large they bore out what the girl 's uncle claimed — that it was with their consent , or even connivance , that the girl had gone to live with her uncle in the first place . |
| 5 | It was wrong to leave her family in the first place , wrong , having come here to go on leading the life she did . ’ |