Example sentences of "of her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had shut the door of her bedroom behind them both , he came to stand in front of her and stroked her face with one finger , tracing her eyebrows , the semi-circular curve of the bones under her eyes , the diagonal lines of her cheekbones , and her lips . |
| 2 | It showed in her face , in the starkness of her cheekbones and the deeply shadowed eyes . |
| 3 | He lifted his hand to her face , tracing the line of her cheekbones with one exquisitely gentle finger , and she quivered helplessly beneath his touch . |
| 4 | The way Mandy had swept her hair back from her face in such untamed curls , and the skilful dusting of make-up , accentuated the highness of her cheekbones , the delicacy of her nose , the soft fullness of her lips . |
| 5 | He observed the tilt of her chin and the curve of her cheekbones as she took in her surroundings . |
| 6 | Saskia — or was it Mogul ? — tucked them into the breast pocket of her overalls for her . |
| 7 | In her haste to be gone she stuffed Dotty Blundell 's brassière into the pocket of her overalls . |
| 8 | There had to be something she could say , something sharp and snappy , tailor-made to disabuse him of that idea , but was n't it just typical that she could n't for the life of her think what it was ? |
| 9 | The cook , a tall shrivelled female who looked as though all of her body-juices had been dried out of her long ago in a hot oven , walked on to the platform wearing a dirty white apron . |
| 10 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 11 | One of the most fierce battles has surrounded Stratford School , in Newham , east London , where the head teacher , Mrs Anne Snelling , is in dispute with a group of her governors . |
| 12 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 13 | She was down on her knees , finishing off the doorstep ; an apron made from some coarse sacking was protecting her plain black dress , her legs were clad in thick black wool stockings and her feet were shod in heavy , much mended shoes — second-hand into the bargain , as was most of her servant 's clothing . |
| 14 | One of her maids was married and did not wish to leave ; another had become very religious . |
| 15 | And after me ? — she saw reflections of her milling thoughts : truncated spurs of alien blue . |
| 16 | Freckles certainly seems to be achieving the aim of publicising the plight of her breed . |
| 17 | She was a pretty , rather fleshy blonde , who revelled in the bohemian life of Montparnasse and enjoyed hanging round artists , posing for them , helping them to buy paints and cigarettes , studying intermittently at the Sorbonne until she had spent most of her inheritance and could no longer afford to pay for tuition . |
| 18 | The descent of her inheritance was the object of intense rivalry in the early 1470s between Clarence , who had married one of Warwick 's coheiresses , and Gloucester , who married the other . |
| 19 | There are cases where , from an economic point of view , the marriage valuables represent the purchase of a husband by the bride rather than vice versa , and the general European pattern , which is met with in many other parts of the world , is for the principal payment to be the bride 's " dowry " , a set of assets which she brings with her into the marriage as a part of her inheritance from her own kin . |
| 20 | A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself . |
| 21 | She was n't sure that she was equipped to help , but the habit of clerical obedience was part of her inheritance . |
| 22 | The descent of her inheritance was the object of intense rivalry in the early 1470s between Clarence , who had married one of Warwick 's coheiresses , and Gloucester , who married the other . |
| 23 | The cottage was warm and surprisingly tidy , considering the size of the family , but Sarah saw little of her surroundings . |
| 24 | She was thinner , abstracted and often seemed unaware of her surroundings . |
| 25 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 26 | For Piaget , the adult 's ability to think logically , to manipulate symbols in meaningful ways and to solve complex problems can be traced directly back to the infant 's first attempts to make sense of her surroundings . |
| 27 | Piaget viewed the emergence of intelligent thought as a process of construction , in which the infant actively seeks to make sense of her surroundings and , more particularly , the relationship between her own actions and the contingent events in the environment . |
| 28 | Anna , knowing nothing of this , and battling to come to terms with the violence of her surroundings , while The Friends seemed to expand and achieve by the month , succumbed every so often to the demon envy . |
| 29 | Awareness of the exact nature of her surroundings was alarming . |
| 30 | She had always devoted considerable time to patient observation of her surroundings , her staff and humanity in general and , now , her assessment of women 's needs and desires precisely matched the throwback mood of the Seventies . |