Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound was like her tiredness at first , a long thrumming in the ear . |
| 2 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 3 | Leith shared many a cup of coffee with Rosemary after that , and although Rosemary seemed reluctant to talk of her marriage at first , it gradually emerged that Derek Talbot was a womaniser who 'd treated his wife shamefully . |
| 4 | Nine patients did not give their number of sexual partners and one of them did not tell her age at first intercourse . |
| 5 | Bernard refused her offer at first ; he did not think her English was fluent enough . |
| 6 | Ruth heard it in her sleep at first , a far-off murmur that did n't seem to mean much . |
| 7 | When he went back into the room , she got her word in first . |
| 8 | His sharp question brought a flush to the face of the man who was so insistent upon helping Jenna , and she decided to get her word in first in view of Alain 's forbidding looks . |
| 9 | ‘ Henri should stick to making soup , ’ Mandy said , obviously not liking her position as first with the news being usurped . |
| 10 | She said her dad at first ‘ hated the idea of me modelling ’ but was now really proud . |
| 11 | I said I reckoned she got her oar in first and thought I 'm gon na |
| 12 | At teatime Anne was seated next to Sarah 's grandmother who talked to her about her family at first then said , ‘ It 's good news about John 's job , is n't it ? ’ |
| 13 | Daisy Smith said : ‘ We could n't find her pulse at first . |