Example sentences of "she [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she read the first word , J O E , her heart gave a great leap . |
| 2 | She read the first two pages and felt a blush rise from her palpitating bosom up her neck to suffuse her face . |
| 3 | She read the first page of a review copy of the new novel by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and put it down again when she realized she had n't taken in a single word . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , it 's a reply to my fax from Beryl ! ’ she exclaimed as she scanned the first paragraph . |
| 5 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 6 | She made the first breach in my armourplating of male superiority . |
| 7 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 8 | Then , with Dawn keeping careful watch on Sandy 's breathing , Sophie took up a scalpel , and , after one long moment of hesitation , she made the first incision . |
| 9 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 10 | As a leading suffragette , she endured the first of two spells in Holloway gaol in 1907 . |
| 11 | She inserted the first in the machine and pressed the button . |
| 12 | Appeals to Bloomsbury House to support job training and applications throw up some curious details : ‘ Ruth needs 2 prs. knickers and 1 apron ’ — she got the first items but not the apron . |
| 13 | By the end of the year she was rewriting the record books as — with her UK sales alone more than 2 million — she became the first female artist to have her first five singles go silver . |
| 14 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 15 | When that happened , however , there would at least be the compensation that she became the first of them to have her power formally acknowledged with the title of regent . |
| 16 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 17 | A Left-winger and a staunch campaigner against nuclear weapons , she became the first woman chairman of the Tribune Group . |
| 18 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 19 | This was given by Mrs Jean Mellonie , Jean Farrow as she was in 1939 when , aged nineteen and at her third attempt , she became the first woman ever to win the race and in record time despite rain and hail . |
| 20 | She became the first female singer to top the festive chart twice . |
| 21 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 22 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 23 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 24 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 25 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 26 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 27 | On the way back , she became the first British square rigger to round Cape Horn in 55 years . |
| 28 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 29 | Mrs Elliott broke new ground when she became the first woman solicitor in the firm about 15 years ago . |
| 30 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |