Example sentences of "[conj] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 2 | She saw him as soon as she started across the room towards the antique chest of drawers where her casual clothes were kept . |
| 3 | There was a neat solid bulge where her flat belly had been . |
| 4 | Miss Rogers , twice Irish girls champion , got her nose in front at the eighth but was forced to concede the tenth where her second overshot the green into very thick rough and the twelfth where she was in a greenside bunker . |
| 5 | Soaking wet , and with a bloody stump where her right arm had been , Susan found herself in the cabin of an airship . |
| 6 | The Stillmans moved to Florence in 1878 , whence she continued to send work regularly to exhibitions in Britain and the USA , where her first appearance in 1875 had drawn favourable notice from the novelist and art amateur Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Each member of her family and each of her close friends will have different strengths upon which she will need to draw , and together you should try to form a bridge over which she can gradually cross from the barren wasteland of her sorrow back into society where her new role awaits her . |
| 8 | The Air Force assigned 42–108777 to the Santa Maria Air Base where her two-seat capability was put to good use . |
| 9 | And she made her exit , to the kitchen , where her real worry was not so much the butlers as the cook , Deirdre Kavanagh , ex-girlfriend of her eldest stepson Jonathan , a mad and dreadful girl with a talent for puff pastry and a conviction that she was a femme fatale , a conviction alas supported by her authentic Irish beauty and her seductive Irish brogue . |
| 10 | Jean never questioned where her public-spirited husband was really going . |
| 11 | A few months later came the California Motion Picture Corporation 's Salvation Nell , in which we follow the adventures of a young girl from the New York tenements , where her drunken father kills her mother and where all her associates are drunks or wasters , through to happiness in the arms of a Salvation Army major . |
| 12 | Liz is now under close watch at her Bel Air home where her seventh husband Larry Fortensky is nursing her . |
| 13 | POLICE have found the van belonging to a murdered social worker half-a-mile from the drugs centre where her battered body was found . |
| 14 | One early decision was sorting out where her 17-year-old son , Michael , was going to sleep as there were only three bedrooms for four people . |
| 15 | She heard her grandmother informing her that out there , in that Mongolian vastness , was ‘ The Dragon 's Tomb ’ where her own great-grandfather had gone to find the dinosaur eggs . |
| 16 | And then to watch Annunciata trip back to the kitchen , where her own Ferdinando was preparing supper , was too much . |
| 17 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 18 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 19 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 20 | He ignored her , lifting her with his strong arms on to the bed , his hands still on her thighs and dangerously moving inwards where her own fires burned unchecked , waiting to be extinguished . |
| 21 | Where her own fantasy fitted in , he did not know . |
| 22 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 23 | Lucy contemplated her future , which seemed to stretch before her in a pattern of bleakness , especially where her social life was concerned . |
| 24 | Was this really where her neat and trimly-dressed school teacher lived ? |
| 25 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
| 26 | Naturally , I hope Heather is alive , but , if she is , she has every right to expect that I will observe absolute confidentiality where her medical history is concerned . |
| 27 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 28 | She swung her long tanned legs over the edge of the bed , forgetting for a moment that she was naked underneath the loosely tied robe , and when she stood up she could feel his eyes trailing insultingly at the V where her naked breasts could be glimpsed . |
| 29 | The results would be used to decorate the house or hall where her artistic flair again showed in the colour and composition of her arrangements . |
| 30 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |