Example sentences of "[noun] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay had poured a million words her way with little response . |
| 2 | She who could call a lame youth to her and support him with her invisible grace while he laid down his crutches on the steps of her altar , why doubt that she could turn the leaves of a Gospel , and guide a faithful finger to the words her will required ? |
| 3 | ‘ How would I explain the presence of one who is known to the court as Joan de Warenne , the Duchess of York 's companion — in other words her servant ! ’ |
| 4 | Then in her mind she heard an echo of the words her teacher , a martial arts master , had used time and time again . |
| 5 | As she said the words her mind was calculating . |
| 6 | In the wake of his softly spoken words her anger subsided and she went to him . |
| 7 | But a childhood gaining a reputation as an impulsive scatterbrain should n't preclude her from the same opportunities and privileges her brother received , should it ? |
| 8 | At first glance her remark seems true enough , but my feelings were quite the opposite . |
| 9 | Jane knew just what a good soldier her husband was , but a woman who has deserted her man and stolen his fortune soon learns to denigrate his memory as a justification for her actions . |
| 10 | And you 'd huv thought a choc ice wouldny have melted in her mouth the wey she cam' in clutching her quarter of matinee mixture quite the cats pyjamas her fur collar swagger . |
| 11 | Indeed , the most naturally farmed animal in this country is the mountain ewe : at the end of a long hard winter and late cold spring her lamb will depressingly often be stillborn , and she herself moribund or even dead . |
| 12 | Called ‘ Suspense ’ , it showed a small girl , saying her prayers before having breakfast in bed , on either side her cat and dog waited in great anticipation . |
| 13 | On either side her head gleamed coiled braids of dark-gold hair , almost pale copper in the subdued light of the room . |
| 14 | She really has n't much choice , there 's the glorified schoolmarm ; there 's the brave little woman who tries to be a good wife and housewife , and I daresay mother , as well , and makes a point of her pretty clothes ; and there 's the bluestocking , the eccentric and frump , the mathematic 's dean who does n't know which side her tea-cup is chipped . |
| 15 | Clare wondered whose side her lawyer was on . |
| 16 | In England these varied in scale from the magnificence of eighteenth-century Bath to quiet Tunbridge Wells on the Sussex borders , ‘ a place in which a lady however virtuous , yet for want of good conduct may as soon shipwreck her character as in any part of England ’ . |
| 17 | If it has grown to £447,000 then £300,000 is taxable on her death but if it falls to £247,000 her estate will only pay tax on £100,000 , assuming that the nil rate band did not change . |
| 18 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 19 | He walked to the barrier and handed Donna her case over the rail . |
| 20 | She sat in an attitude of dumb submission , weary and spent , as if careless of the future her words had painfully shaped for her . |
| 21 | In all human relationships her motto is ‘ Detach with affection ’ . |
| 22 | Despite a flaring anger at this impertinence her eyes were drawn to the strong column of his throat as he swallowed . |
| 23 | Though she was not entirely at ease with Mrs Frere her heart flooded with sympathy for her loss . |
| 24 | She says , ‘ Only after a woman takes in her stride her mother 's failures of understanding , empathy and availability , instead of responding to these shortcomings with childish indignation , is she ready to become her adult friend … |
| 25 | She handed Catriona her glass . |
| 26 | Once the mother has made up her mind her firmness of resolve is often communicated to the child . |
| 27 | No blue skies , just the same depressing grey she had grown used to , and as the events of yesterday flooded relentlessly into her mind her eyes filled with helpless tears . |
| 28 | He put a hand to his brow and now out of all she had said there came into his mind her words : ‘ You could n't support a rabbit . ’ |
| 29 | In Diana 's young mind her brother 's gravestone with its simple ‘ In Loving Memory ’ epitaph , was a permanent reminder that , as she now recalls : ‘ I was the girl who was supposed to be a boy . ’ |
| 30 | And in fact in some of the schools was here I know that Mrs Flaws erm from Wyre her idea at the school was to make Orcadian children bilingual . |