Example sentences of "to her first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In between college courses and jobs as an ad executive , Elizabeth always took time out to return to her first love — travelling .
2 She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’
3 Arguably , Nathalie Sarraute 's career benefited enormously from Sartre 's famous preface to her first novel , Portrait d'un inconnu ( 1947 ) , which he claimed placed her in the alternative tradition of the ‘ anti-roman ’ .
4 When Mr Cod was a puppy , Simon Cowell , the man who signed Sinitta to her first recording deal , bought her a Yorkshire Terrier to keep Mr Cod company .
5 She had three to her first marriage .
6 In the 15th minute came a carbon copy to her first goal as Jackie McWilliams increased Randalstown 's lead .
7 At the beginning of 1990 , Jennifer Kelsall helped a deaf woman give birth to her first child at Wythenshawe Maternity Hospital in Manchester .
8 There , on 17 June , Constanze gave birth to her first child , a boy , named Raimund Leopold in honour of his godfather , Baron Raimund Wezlar , and his grandfather .
9 The accolade came three months after giving birth to her first child , called Isha and she even beat her hairdressing husband , Jason to the title .
10 LETHAL Weapon 2 star Patsy Kensit , 24 , was celebrating at a London hospital last night after giving birth to her first child , a baby boy .
11 In developing countries , where family planning is rarely practised prior to birth of the first child , the timing of first union bears directly upon fertility patterns , including the age at which the woman gives birth to her first child , often also the nature and pattern of subsequent reproductive events , as well as completed family size .
12 Little more than a year after her marriage , Ermentrude had given birth to her first child , Judith .
13 Mrs Gilfoyle 's body was discovered in the early evening of Friday , June 4 , 1992 at the family home in Upton , Wirral , two weeks before she was due to give birth to her first child .
14 The North Shields Polytechnic athlete , who finished third in the 200 metres final in the 1989 UK Championships , gave birth to her first child , Victoria , on Monday .
15 ‘ Mr Speaker , ’ swooned James Paice , a Tory backbencher from Cambridgeshire , ‘ can I first welcome my Honourable Friend to her first question time ? ’
16 When they met she was happily married to her first husband Laurie Brown , a member of Manchester United 's back-room staff .
17 The monastery 's right to Pallas was challenged by the Lady Garsinde , wife of Bernard le Velu , who declared that the estate had belonged to her first husband Raymond , from whom count Raymond III had taken it by force .
18 She was buried in Bladon , next to her first husband .
19 Liz came to her first CPS on Saturday since Christmas .
20 He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato .
21 welcomed to her first Q.T. day in post .
22 The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ .
23 Rachel looks back to her first batches of yogurt : Two gallons , then five gallons , then a churnful , sold to local shops .
24 Whilst her husband , Captain Sherwood , was serving in India , she there gave birth to her first son , Henry , who did not long survive .
25 Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary :
26 She was also prone to frequent and severe migraine headaches , and she had a wheezy chest which had led to her first asthma attack which worried her greatly .
27 Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked .
28 ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever , ’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby .
29 Mrs Sharon Smith gave birth to her first baby , a son named Oliver , 28 hours after being admitted to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester in June .
30 A YOUNG wife happily looking forward to her first baby was hung by her cheating husband just two weeks before the child was due , a court heard yesterday .
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