Example sentences of "first [noun sg] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first instance she arranges the marriage of Elgiva to the sensitive and naive king . |
| 2 | At the first stoplight she leaned over and kissed him . |
| 3 | Equally personal is Janet Smith 's The World Outside My Window , the first piece she has made since disbanding her company and the first in a long time that she has made to please herself . |
| 4 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 5 | On a week 's package holiday at the time , the first break she had been able to afford since leaving drama school , it had taken her all of five minutes to make up her mind to stay . |
| 6 | ‘ Is the road still impassable ? ’ was the first question she asked . |
| 7 | In this first session she demonstrated how she nagged him and went on and on trying to get the response she wanted . |
| 8 | By sheer good luck , the first desk she had tried had informed her that yes , a Lori Templeton was booked on to one of their flights . |
| 9 | The first sermon she preached reiterated the message . |
| 10 | No. 1 was the first work she composed for herself to perform , and it is a pianistic tour de force . |
| 11 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 12 | The first discovery she had made on return was that she had forgotten to take the cheesecake out of the freezer . |
| 13 | With the first issue she hitched north to York and on to Hull , where the students were occupying the campus in solidarity with the May Events at first , but rapidly in pursuit of ‘ One Man — One Vote ’ within the university . |
| 14 | He retired over there : his marriage had gone and so had his daughter 's ’ — and so had Magill 's first marriage she knew : marriages in the secret world had a high casuality rate — ‘ and she went over to keep house for him . ’ |
| 15 | In the first place she had always consistently opposed fashion shows for her company ; she did not approve of professional models wearing ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes since they were not representative of her real customers ; furthermore , she had moral objections to catwalk cavortings as being sexually provocative ; ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were not designed with sexual provocation in mind . |
| 16 | In the first place she sharpened her political antennae and manipulative skills . |
| 17 | She knew that now , had known it from the very first moment she had met him , however more comfortable it would have been to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain . |
| 18 | She had thought of him as Roman since the first moment she had known his name . |
| 19 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 20 | What that word represented had begun to grow in her from almost the very first moment she had seen him . |
| 21 | She told Lily afterwards that from the first moment she saw him , she knew . |
| 22 | From their very first meeting she had known he was a man in control of himself and his life . |
| 23 | It was the first remark she had volunteered all evening . |
| 24 | Even her first husband she had regained from that dreadful hinterland of marsh and bog and storm cloud : and now they were good friends , she and Edgar , in the sunlight , harmlessly friends , and on some subjects ( the National Health Service , the pathology of multiple murderers , the ethics of reporting violent crime ) had struck up alliances that excluded , that increasingly and dramatically excluded , her husband Charles . |
| 25 | After the first interval she took Freddie Reynalde 's coffee and biscuits down to the band room under the stage . |
| 26 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 27 | Mind you , I think she were a bit frugal with truth when she said that first lad she 'd gone with and she got pregnant . |
| 28 | As her business grew , the first copier she had rented from Clydesdale Office Equipment was not equal to the demands made on it , and Clydesdale recommended replacement with a more powerful machine . |
| 29 | It was the first inkling she had that she could end up homeless . |
| 30 | Cecilia opened the small red book and the first name she saw was Bleech-Palmer . |