Example sentences of "the first [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 2 | On a Saturday in late January 1798 , sitting perhaps at one of the tall windows in her favourite parlour , she began the first of her surviving journals : |
| 3 | Hence the dress and hat which sent the photographers into ecstasy in Melbourne and generally created far more attention and comment than the match in which she had successfully defeated the first of her 1991 Grand Slam titles . |
| 4 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 5 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |
| 6 | She bore the first of her eight children at fifteen ( the last two died young ) . |
| 7 | In 1925 , at the Mayor Gallery , London , she had the first of her eighteen one-woman exhibitions , which was well received critically . |
| 8 | The first of her twenty-four novels , Audrey Craven , was published in 1897 . |
| 9 | David was the first of her children to wed and Laura got on well with her first in-law , welcoming her into the family as well as the company . |
| 10 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 11 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 12 | Doreen , she realised , was having the first of her private talks with Silas , and she longed to know if the barrier he had raised was about to crumble . |
| 13 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 14 | To her dismay she felt her cheeks grow hot , and by the time she reached the treatment area she found the first of her patients had arrived . |