Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her recent experience she was taking no chances . |
| 2 | After her third attempt she was sacked . |
| 3 | For her own sake it was a side she could n't afford to see too often . |
| 4 | During her first episode she was also suicidal , reporting that ‘ she despaired of her life , weening she might not live ’ and that ‘ she would have destroyed herself many a time at their [ the devils , ] stirrings … ’ . |
| 5 | Even through her own embarrassment she was cynically aware with one part of her mind that Bert Harris 's interests would certainly not be served by going against a man as powerful as Luke . |
| 6 | At the time of her second marriage she was in love with Henry Pierce , an attorney 's clerk and associate of her first husband . |
| 7 | Her arms and legs ached , and because of her pending interrogation she was ever conscious of being stripped of her knickers . |
| 8 | Trudy had put up with his nonsense with great patience but when she found him busily working away in the region of her left ear it was too much . |
| 9 | If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken , undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly . |
| 10 | Like her great namesake she was always well organized , and of course she had had so much experience helping with my grandmother 's last six confinements , and going out sometimes with our local midwife , who to some would be a Sairey Gamp , but to those who knew her , another angel of mercy . |
| 11 | She was a dark , broad-faced girl with Slavic eyes ; under her thick make-up she was probably little more than twenty . |
| 12 | It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest . |
| 13 | Although quiet and demure in her first term she was no goody goody . |
| 14 | And for once in her misbegotten life she was right . |
| 15 | But in her small corner it was as if time had decided to take an extended coffee-break . |
| 16 | For , to conceal the fact that in her utter astonishment she was looking ready to drop , Naylor moved his chair closer to her and drew her attention by planting a light and loving kiss on her cheek . |
| 17 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |
| 18 | And erm in her particular way she was quite a good cook too . |
| 19 | In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train . |
| 20 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 21 | When Ruth eventually stirred from her languid torpor it was dark and hot . |
| 22 | When the sun played on her golden hair it was as bright as the copper warming pan which Sarah put between the sheets on winter nights . |
| 23 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |
| 24 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |