Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [noun] [pers pn] was " 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 late teens she was arrested twice for her part in political demonstrations and was later kicked out of university for neglecting her studies . |
| 5 | 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 … ’ . |
| 6 | During her first weeks she was noisy and disruptive in class . |
| 7 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the time of her second marriage she was in love with Henry Pierce , an attorney 's clerk and associate of her first husband . |
| 10 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 11 | Her arms and legs ached , and because of her pending interrogation she was ever conscious of being stripped of her knickers . |
| 12 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken , undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was a dark , broad-faced girl with Slavic eyes ; under her thick make-up she was probably little more than twenty . |
| 17 | Willa Cather 's My Antonia , which along with her other novels I was absorbing with great delight at this period , provided another couple with whom to identify , Antonia and Jim Burden , and I kept switching sides with these characters also . |
| 18 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 19 | It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest . |
| 20 | Although quiet and demure in her first term she was no goody goody . |
| 21 | And for once in her misbegotten life she was right . |
| 22 | But in her small corner it was as if time had decided to take an extended coffee-break . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |
| 25 | And erm in her particular way she was quite a good cook too . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When Ruth eventually stirred from her languid torpor it was dark and hot . |
| 29 | Even to her inexperienced eyes it was clear he was no beginner , and frankly it was a pleasure to watch him . |
| 30 | It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone . |