Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The likelihood of Britain having to meet her obligations in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula increased in step with the raucousness of Radio Cairo 's ‘ The Voice of the Arabs ’ , adjuring all true followers of Islam to oust every vestige of European colonialism from their lands . |
| 2 | In the aftermath of Suez , Britain had no other option but to try to repair the damage done to her trans-Atlantic anchor cables and to accept her position as an offshore island of the United States . |
| 3 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 4 | Nutty paused , trying to marshal her convictions into the right words . |
| 5 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 6 | And suddenly Morse knew where the body had been launched into the river and into eternity ; knew , too , that if Lucy Downes could so quickly arouse the rather sluggish libido of a Lewis , then it was hardly difficult to guess her effect upon the lively carnality of a Kemp . |
| 7 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |
| 8 | And , by the time she climbed down the wooden steps to the kiosk , she had managed to coax her lips into a sour smile . |
| 9 | Streamlined jockey Michael Roberts gave Lyric Fantasy the chance to find her feet in the early stages , but a sudden surge of speed at the furlong marker clinched the money . |
| 10 | Shelley was surprised to find her chief in the medical centre . |
| 11 | She could still return through the woods , retracing the silent path , past the clearing and its ancient Eros with blank sightless eyes , moss flaking from its pedestal like old scales , to find her car beyond the padlocked gates , its paintwork shimmering in the heat . |
| 12 | Above : once she 's got the T-shirt in position , it 's easy for Clare to slip her head through the big hole in the middle |
| 13 | Slammed against his body , Caroline barely had time to catch her breath in a choked gasp before he bent to cover her mouth , his kiss so fiercely unexpected that her head fell back . |
| 14 | The lamp-post that welcomed travellers to the inn had long lost its cursory flame , and she had neither candle nor lantern to light her way through the darkened streets . |
| 15 | Late afternoon sun spilled white shafts across the desk to light her hair with a jewelled sheen the colour of pomegranates . |
| 16 | Dropping the useless stems , she used all her strength to swing her briefcase in a wide arc , bringing it crashing into the man 's stomach . |
| 17 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 18 | The breakthrough had been made but now was the time to confirm her arrival as a major talent . |
| 19 | She ran her tongue nervously over her lips , tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she 'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student , fresh from college . |
| 20 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 21 | She has since returned 11 times to continue her research on the long-term environmental effects of the US/Vietnam war , and last year published the book The regreening of Vietnam ( The Women 's Press , £17.95hb ) . |
| 22 | When Darwin appropriated this evolutionary perspective , and the morally convenient notion of the survival of the fittest , all nature seemed to chorus her approval of the unchallengeable truth of these basic facts of human and animal existence . |
| 23 | And something quite miraculous happened : surgeons were able to restore her sight with a brilliant new surgical technique . |
| 24 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 25 | Like any woman , she was happy to be admired , but she was also determined to sell her wheat at a good price , and to do business with the other farmers like a man . |
| 26 | By this time the other power with ambitions of hegemony in Sicily , Syracuse herself , had probably begun to coerce her neighbours in an organized way . |
| 27 | The clash between the demands of the Welfare State and Britain 's desire to regain her position as a great power had claimed its first victim ! |
| 28 | In contrast , if a wife has had her sixtieth birthday but her husband has not yet reached 65 ( or has decided to defer his retirement ) , she must wait until her husband retires to receive her share of the married couple 's pension . |
| 29 | LIVERPOOL 'S former Lord Mayor , Councillor Rosie Cooper , was in London this afternoon to receive her award as a national Catholic Woman of the Year . |
| 30 | Still — she stood back to view her handiwork with a pleased nod — she had n't done too badly for a total amateur , even if she did say so herself . |