Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After her initial difficulties she has made a very satisfactory recovery . |
| 2 | After her third attempt she felt quite secure and rather smug . |
| 3 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 4 | And with a cool , excluding smile for her former daughter-in-law she accompanied her large son and his slender young companion from the room , leaving Melanie staring after them in umbrage . |
| 5 | Just for her own satisfaction she pulled the very worst one she could think of — worse than any of Oz 's — with her cheeks blown out , her eyes crossed and the tip of her tongue protruding . |
| 6 | For her younger sister I felt a similar affection and admiration . |
| 7 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
| 8 | During her last year she joined the Voluntary Service Unit and visited an old lady in Sevenoaks once a week . |
| 9 | Out of her black handbag she brings a packet of Silk Cut cigarettes . |
| 10 | MY DAUGHTER , who lives at home with my wife and I , is in full employment and because of her low wage she pays a reduced poll tax . |
| 11 | Well should have been really taking two of her strong tablets she says , you know , and she has . |
| 12 | The day of the hearing of her second case she had been found dead . |
| 13 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 14 | With this foot and all the solidity and strength of her right leg she levered herself into a standing position . |
| 15 | If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she 'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions . |
| 16 | When he gently pushed her backwards and began undoing the buttons of her dress and cupped a hand over one of her small breasts she made no attempt to resist . |
| 17 | With one of her smallest smiles she glanced at Caroline as if affecting surprise to see her there . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 19 | When Karenin warns Anna of her dangerous position he says |
| 20 | In spite of her inner turmoil she felt the pull of the tranquillity of the place . |
| 21 | But as Luke joined with her and experienced the first brief resistance of her untutored flesh she felt the shock run through him . |
| 22 | Although from her upbringing it might have been thought that ‘ visiting the sick ’ would be a part of her daily life she had hardly ever — thanks to the Welfare State — had to perform this duty , and then only with her mother or father . |
| 23 | In Lucy 's ultimate rejection of Cecil and realisation of her own feelings she rejects the conventional life society offers her , to live a life of authenticity with George Emerson . |
| 24 | Of her own marriage she said ‘ Sometimes I forget that we are husband and wife . |
| 25 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body . |
| 26 | As her mother swept back her hair in a parody of her own action she dropped her eyes . |
| 27 | With one of her fast movements she went into the passage . |
| 28 | Only it is n't Dieter , it 's Alain Gebrec , but because of her dodgy eyesight she does n't realise her mistake . ’ |
| 29 | What Brooke-Rose does with discursive and textual matter in much of her previous fiction she does here with personae . |
| 30 | She found herself watching him as he carried their drinks back to the table , the easy way he moved , his casual dress , his ready smile , and in spite of her previous reservations she realised she was liking what she saw . |