Example sentences of "on her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were fightmarks on her flat face , and she had a figure that owed more to steroids and implants than nature . |
| 2 | ‘ Midsummer madness ’ , ’ he quoted softly , his gaze on her averted profile . |
| 3 | In 1831 the Sultan 's Egyptian vassal , Mehemet Ali , launched an assault on Syria which challenged Constantinople 's authority and endangered the strong position which Russia had acquired on her southern flank as a result of the Treaty of Adrianople . |
| 4 | Miss Pamela Lyall , who sat beside him and talked carelessly , represented the modern school of thought in that she was wearing the barest minimum of clothing on her sun-browned person . |
| 5 | More often , Badb was seen striding to a river on her great legs to wash clothes . |
| 6 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 7 | After one long and stimulating chat with Emily on her small front porch she suddenly announced ‘ I 'm going to call you Bobbie ! ’ and Bobbie it remained in all our conversations and letters from her , from then on . |
| 8 | Mrs Barnet carried too much flesh on her small frame , so that her figure appeared several years older than her face . |
| 9 | It looked ironic , satiric , suggestive on her small frame . |
| 10 | Candy sat back on her heels with great satisfaction , an expectant look on her small , pert features . |
| 11 | She closed her eyes , concentrating once again on her tightening fingers , trying not to think of Richie Daly and the Emma Bates ; trying not to weep when she thought about the waste of a good life , of fifty good lives . |
| 12 | Virginia frowned , drawing on her limited knowledge of package tours and cheap flights . |
| 13 | The little girl would always remember that moment , and the picture of her mother , so beautiful and so elegant in her top hat and long dark riding habit , mounted side-saddle on her famous grey hunter . |
| 14 | ‘ Suzie is n't — ’ she began belligerently , only to find her voice faltering to a halt as Rune , clearly oblivious to the start of her protest , swept his cool glance over her from the crown of her dark head to the sensible shoes on her graceful feet . |
| 15 | ‘ Had enough of men for the time being ? ’ he asked , his eyes still fixed on her unhappy face . |
| 16 | Boadicea , on her shining chariot with scythes on the wheels , razed all the Roman settlements in her path , and so Durobrivae was obliterated . |
| 17 | Whose bed ? she had an insane desire to say , but for once she managed to keep a check on her unruly tongue . |
| 18 | THE husband of Julie Godwin told last night how he kissed her goodbye as she set off on her fateful holiday to South Africa . |
| 19 | For more than a year — ever since her début album became a worldwide number one — she had fiercely resisted every pressure to capitalise on her phenomenal record sales with a series of live stage shows . |
| 20 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 21 | He was perspiring heavily as he sipped his drink , gazing wistfully at the voluptuous creature who stood naked before him in the half light with a look of scared concern on her young face . |
| 22 | The Duchess saw the fear on her young friend 's face . |
| 23 | It was a timely reminder that her own garden needed attention and in any case , mechanical tasks like digging and muck-spreading might have a therapeutic effect on her emotional system . |
| 24 | The night air felt suddenly cool on her uncovered body , and she shivered . |
| 25 | Lifting his head , Giles looked down on her stricken face . |
| 26 | She found Maisie Dougall standing in the doorway , a serious look on her ruddy face . |
| 27 | After carrying out her duties as a home help in the Fermanagh village of Tempo she slips into her unpaid role as she cooks , cares , does the shopping and provides transport for the many village people who have come to depend on her selfless efforts . |
| 28 | That was strictly his own idea to try and cover any hesitations while he hid the trail that led to Miss Tuckey and the picture on her wan . |
| 29 | She tried hard to hold them back , swallowing on her aching throat . |
| 30 | An evening in Guy 's company , trying to hide this new throb of awareness which was beginning to throw an entirely different light on her gruesome experience with Mortimer ? |