Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eye lighted first on the Bishop 's purple vest , then on his pectoral cross of slim , dull , old silver . |
| 2 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 3 | He helps his twin brother to carry off a young peasant girl from among his tenantry , her husband having first been killed by being deliberately overworked in unhealthy conditions . |
| 4 | For instance , if you say , ‘ Donna , if you do not think first , but lash out at your sister , I will not allow you to go to the fairground with me ’ , her resolve to think first and desist from hitting out will be strengthened . |
| 5 | In the three years since her father had first called so unexpectedly at the Red House , she had made an effort to see her mother most Sundays . |
| 6 | Her father spoke first . |
| 7 | Along one of those paths was the figure of Laura Channing , unable to move from the indeterminate point in time at which her life had first crossed that of Mahoney . |
| 8 | If your child does something you do not like , such as losing her temper too easily , you may increase her ability to think first and hold her temper by penalizing her consistently for failing to do so ; in this way you are providing an ‘ incentive ’ for her efforts to keep her cool . |
| 9 | Though she recognised the logic and understood the urgency , her unease blossomed first into anxiety , then dread . |
| 10 | To B. , the happiness of her family comes first and she is , in the eyes of Miller , clearly in the right all along . |
| 11 | To watch her mother go first pale with shock , then stiff with rage . |