Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [noun sg] of her " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human mother who gave birth to a deformed , bestial hybrid would dote on it blindly , as protective as a tiger of her cub , and as cunning . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the war Russia had felt able to commit no more than a quarter of her field army to the southern part of the empire , as she needed the other three-quarters on her western frontier to defuse possible threats from Austria , Prussia and Sweden . |
| 3 | The play is nothing more than a succession of her venomous attacks on the sons ’ girls and the sons ' unbelievably feeble attempts to fight back . |
| 4 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 5 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
| 6 | She was perfectly calm , perfectly quiet , and had nothing to say , other than a reiteration of her previous statement , to wit , ‘ he could never resist a cherry ’ . |