Example sentences of "[pos pn] first child " in BNC.

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1 My first child arrived quite quickly on the due date .
2 I needed a ventouse extraction with my first child — with the epidural and having now delivered without an epidural — I understand why .
3 Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council .
4 I was promoted to assistant manageress in the clothes shop , and worked a further eight months before leaving to have my first child .
5 In 1967 I married and had my first child .
6 When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child .
7 Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby .
8 I had Stuart about 3.55 a.m. which I 'm told was n't bad for my first child .
9 I have n't worked for 30 years , since my first child was born .
10 I started work at 16 , married a wonderful man at 20 and left my job to have my first child at 21 .
11 I had my first child one year after I got married .
12 The arrival of my first child , a daughter in 1989 , left me stunned and fascinated at society 's attitude towards birth .
13 Six years ago , I had my first child with no complications .
14 Six years ago , I had my first child with no complications .
15 Nor does it get us anywhere to learn from Anna Dostoevsky 's Memoirs that the story of the frantic Shatov , where phrasing seems inevitable and images unsought — it does n't help to be told by the novelist 's widow that these flawless pages lean heavily on his own behaviour while their first child was being born .
16 JAPAN 'S young women , like their sisters in other rich countries before them , are now marrying later , putting off having their first child longer and then choosing to have fewer children in all .
17 In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child .
18 For mum Carol and dad Ron it was their first child and they were absolutely delighted .
19 The marriage was a happy one and when Carol was 24 the couple were blessed with their first child , Kylie Ann .
20 He and his blonde wife , Adrienne , a Klanswoman who is expecting their first child next month , now have to be careful , they say .
21 For example , in 1964 , the average age of mothers having their first child was 24 years , by 1980 it had risen by 6 months and by 1989 it stood at 25.3 .
22 Paul , 33 , an accountant , had a brief affair shortly after his wife gave birth to their first child .
23 It was never clear exactly what in his wife 's behaviour had felt so rejecting and triggered off his attack on her , but the attack had occurred shortly after the birth of their first child .
24 After the divorce he married her again under his real name at St. Mildred 's , Bread Street , London and their first child , Sophia , was born in July 1792 .
25 SANDY LYLE is ready to pull out of the US Masters to be at his wife 's side for the birth of their first child .
26 Thomas and Elizabeth lost their first child five months after the marriage ; the next , Nancy or Nany , was buried at Catherine Hill on 16 December 1773 , the day of the Boston Tea Party .
27 The miniaturist John Hoskins the Younger married Grace Beaumont in February 1669/70 and their first child , a boy , was born in 1670/71 .
28 In December 1974 Camilla and Andrew had their first child — and asked Charles to be a godfather .
29 Their first child , Michael , was born in March 1989 .
30 The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry .
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