Example sentences of "and her [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merrill slept late on Sunday morning , and her first concern was for Richard . |
| 2 | Eleanor 's husband had secured his first lectureship , and her first novel had been acclaimed in literary circles . |
| 3 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 4 | It was a line that began with the excavation work at the Heavenite observatory and her first trip in the TARDIS ( how could you forget the TARDIS ? ) , continued with a confused recollection of pointing a gun at the Doctor in a tunnel somewhere , and ended on Sakkrat ( Sakkrat ? |
| 5 | She was in an advanced state of pregnancy and her first child was born on the spot by caesarean section . |
| 6 | Jacqueline was already pregnant , and her first child , was born soon after , defying medical concerns about her robustness for giving birth . |
| 7 | For Ruth had been married to Connor 's brother Sean , and her first child — a fine boy called Danny — had been born four years ago . |
| 8 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
| 9 | She was first elected branch representative in 1978 and her first involvement at Area Council level was in 1981 . |
| 10 | It was afternoon before Marian awoke and her first thought was of the body lying face downward on the grass . |
| 11 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 12 | She stared into that tough face and her first thought was , Do you ? |
| 13 | She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat . |
| 14 | The girl is eventually divorced and will return to her parents and her first love . |
| 15 | Topaz knew that he was teasing her and her first nervousness was gone . |
| 16 | Mrs Aquino also hinted that her Vice-President , Mr Salvador Laurel , and her first cousin and a Marcos associate , Mr Eduardo Cojuangco , were involved in the plot . |
| 17 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 18 | In this session Ann talked of her deprived early life and her first marriage , which ended when her husband walked out . |
| 19 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 20 | Going by past experience , there was a high probability that something had happened to the others , and her first instinct was to go and search for them . |
| 21 | The daughter opened the door and her first words were : ‘ She 's lying , I did n't hit her ’ . |
| 22 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 23 | She 's now head of the university she officially opened sixteen years ago , and her first task was to confer honorary doctorates on some of her old friends . |
| 24 | Shelley had n't , much , and her first impression , after her shock , was fear . |
| 25 | ( Above ) Ivory and gilded copper cup ( hanape ) showing Mary and her first husband Francis ( the future Francis II , 1559–60 ) as dauphin and dauphiness of France , 1558 . |
| 26 | Dawn and her first husband , Brian , divorced as a result of the affair . |
| 27 | The bill had arrived just before our fifth wedding anniversary , celebrated with a rare night out at the Working Men 's Club with my in-laws and Pam and her first husband , Gordon . |
| 28 | I suppose he was your first lover , and we all know what 's said about a woman and her first lover . |
| 29 | The property here was to be held in trust for his wife and her first son , Maximilian until he was 24 . |
| 30 | However , the charm of the city raised her spirits and her first impressions after a night out at an artists ' ball were fresh and delightful : ‘ You ca n't walk home at dawn in Paris , even two hundred yards . |