Example sentences of "her [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in her case the technique employed is a great deal less attractive — it is to blame everyone but herself when things are going wrong and to make scapegoats out of able colleagues . |
| 2 | Nancy Burson also works with a kind of pinhole camera in her case the commercially produced ‘ Diana ’ box cameras of the 1940s and 50s . |
| 3 | Linda Hopcraft 's words strike a chord with most of us — and in her case the missing item was a spare set of clothes for seven-week-old Jessica . |
| 4 | So , in her case the age range of 17 ½ to 28 was unlawful indirect sex discrimination because considerably less women than men could comply with the age limits . |
| 5 | In her case the disease had progressed rapidly with little instances of remission and her condition had deteriorated so much that within three years she was almost permanently confined to a wheelchair . |
| 6 | Day after day , she did what was expected of her and there was so little fire left in her that , when Mr Landor emptied a jug of red wine over a white damask tablecloth and kicked in her direction a cushion which split and sent feathers flying everywhere , she said not a word . |
| 7 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 8 | As Paige hastened into her shirt the drone changed to the recognisable beat of helicopter blades . |
| 9 | In May 1559 , Mary of Guise had hurled at her opponents the accusation that they ‘ meant no religion , but a plain rebellion ’ . |
| 10 | On one occasion , when unexpectedly Mme Guérigny was giving her views an airing , I was asked for mine , and handed the page under discussion . |
| 11 | She is a tyrant who numbers among her possessions a private menagerie of four hundred and nineteen fools , some grotesquely malformed , others as beauteous as the dawn . |
| 12 | As she reads her sons a bedtime story , she hopes a hearing at Oxford County Court tomorrow , will grant her more time to find a new home . |
| 13 | Belle gave her sons the idea that it was capricious irresponsibility . |
| 14 | When she looked over the side in surprise , to her horror a huge orca surfaced just a metre away . |
| 15 | To her horror the top one was of herself . |
| 16 | Ginnie gave her sister a dig in the ribs . |
| 17 | She shot her sister a crafty glance . |
| 18 | With a start of shame she realised that she 'd scarcely paid her sister a moment 's thought since entering the gardens . |
| 19 | Leonora gave her sister a scornful look . |
| 20 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Leonora , who had given her sister a very much edited version of Saturday night . |
| 21 | Some have seen in the clash between Antigone and Creon a parable of the demands of individual conscience against social imperatives , others in the encounter between Ismene and her sister a dramatisation of the need to temper conviction lest it degenerate into fanaticism . |
| 22 | On the 4th , Sophie , who normally visited her sister every day to help out , decided not to go , but to go out for a walk instead . |
| 23 | She threw her sister an apprehensive glance but was reassured to see she was smiling . |
| 24 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 25 | Doctor Milford must have told her sister the truth and she was taking it very hard . |
| 26 | His mother was there , her hair freshly styled , hurrying round the stalls with her sister the dressmaker , whose hair looked smart also . |
| 27 | She had little doubt that she had allowed her heart to rule her head , and , much as she had enjoyed what had happened between her and David , could she ultimately trust a man who had treated her sister the way he had ? |
| 28 | Once she 'd downed some of the extra-strong brew she gave her sister the bare bones of the story , then turned dull eyes on Elise 's horrified face . |
| 29 | And Kathleen Reddan , who last saw her sister the day before she was killed , said the sentence was ‘ an insult ’ . |
| 30 | She turned and ran with her bike the way she had come , and did n't even stop to jump on again , until the-cows were out of sight round a bend ! |