Example sentences of "of her first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly was still upset and dazed by the events of her first day back at work . |
| 2 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 3 | A charming cover , such an improvement on the terrible yellow of her first novel The Wayward Tide . |
| 4 | An artist and a writer who 's now centre stage with publication of her first novel . |
| 5 | Naturally , one of her first customers was her Cousin Ruth . |
| 6 | The war marked Japan 's acquisition of her first colonies , and made her a force to be reckoned with in East Asian affairs . |
| 7 | The talented female star headed for a welcome rest after a hectic six months that 's seen the release of her first solo LP and current hit single Walking on Broken Glass . |
| 8 | Laura , 31 , went to school with Diana and when the Princess moved into her flat in Cadogan Place , in London , Laura was one of her first flatmates . |
| 9 | Caterina 's tongue travelled slowly across her lips , trying to recapture the taste of her first ice cream . |
| 10 | In the course of her first couple of days , Julia found the social nuances of the office a constant source of surprise . |
| 11 | On 30 October 1980 , Laura celebrated the birth of her first grandchild , an American baby called Sara Jane . |
| 12 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 13 | She wished to collect two items overlooked in the haste of her first departure : her deck of Tarot cards and , for wise consoling company , the porcelain figure of a Chinese mandarin which had stood for many years in her bedroom at the Hall . |
| 14 | In one of her first school plays where she played a Dutch doll , Diana only agreed to take the part if she could remain silent . |
| 15 | At the top of the first sheet she wrote the subject of her first notes . |
| 16 | One of her first purchases has become the museum 's biggest loss : ‘ The Concert ’ by Jan Vermeer , bought at an auction in Paris for FFr29,000 . |
| 17 | Since Melanee wants a loan of less than 70 per cent of the value of her first home , she can have the pick of the first time buyer discounts . |
| 18 | The star was shapeless and the candle spattered with glue reminding her of her first efforts . |
| 19 | The use of her first name did not imply familiarity , as it would have done in England– though she had never really got used to being on first-name basis with everyone ; she was invariably disconcerted by this custom . |
| 20 | She began to paint after the birth of her first child in 1973 . |
| 21 | She is no longer regarded as an alien , and the birth of her first child brings her full social status and consolidates her position in her husband 's family . |
| 22 | Renshaw has returned to work after the birth of her first child and employed a nanny to look after the child . |
| 23 | Liddie Heath became very depressed after the birth of her first child , a baby boy . |
| 24 | In Kempe 's case the problem is slightly eased by the fact that even she recognised her state after the birth of her first child as a sickness of mind and we should not regard this as an isolated episode of ‘ puerperal psychosis ’ that was unconnected with her continuing aberrant behaviour . |
| 25 | The trip had also offered temporary escape from her mother 's pointed reminiscences that when she was Polly 's age she had already been married two years and was preparing for the birth of her first child . |
| 26 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 27 | Constanze was only too happy to recall the days of her first marriage , and she pointed out Mozart 's own favourite numbers from the operas , including Cherubino 's ‘ Non so più ’ and the sextet ‘ Riconosci a questo amplesso ’ from Figaro ; ‘ Di scrivermi ’ , the second quintet from Così fan tutte ; and the Commendatore 's music from Don Giovanni . |
| 28 | You must be especially proud today , because she liked you so much that despite all the difficulties of her first marriage , when she met you she decided to try it again . |
| 29 | During a period of extreme emotional distress , the ending of her first marriage , she became interested in the work of Philip Guston. these paintings ‘ Beggar ’ ( 1982 ) , along with Guston 's later work , are included in a period of art referred to as ‘ Bad Paintings ’ . |
| 30 | On one of her first visits to Hamilton Terrace in Bobby 's company she was told that ‘ the Roberts ’ were coming to tea . |