Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of the hearing of her second case she had been found dead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she 'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And abruptly , from what buried part of her muddled brain she had no idea , she found herself shaking her head , reaching out a hand which seemed to be operating on automatic pilot . |
| 7 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 8 | Throughout her married life she had to play second fiddle to the interests of her husband . |
| 9 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 10 | Few men living in Leicester were not , Theda reflected , for in her former life she had learned early that this was the best hunting country in England . |
| 11 | In her first school she had been considered outstanding at maths , and had obtained six grade As in her nine O levels . |
| 12 | In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently . |
| 13 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
| 14 | Furious , she glared at her half-empty wine glass , realising that in her abstracted mood she 'd drunk far more than she normally allowed herself to drink . |
| 15 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 16 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 17 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 18 | Well I , I met him actually through er I was nursing erm a baby , she was only three months old and she 'd had , she 'd caught , from her older sister she 'd caught whooping cough . |
| 19 | Over her orange-blossom headdress she had a long flowing veil which flowed down her back ; her dress of white satin rustled and crinkled as she walked . |
| 20 | On her right hand she had a large pile of blanks . |
| 21 | On her last visit I 'd been unable to take my eyes off her gold earrings and her bangles . |
| 22 | Late at night she kept up her journal and wrote her column for J.D. , and on her last visit he had offered her a post on his editorial staff , a full-time one , when she had finished her East End stint , as he called it . |
| 23 | ( 68 ) Ianthe Ambrose could have gone overboard any time after 9.10 , when she was seen to leave the lecture , and on her own statement she had been no swimmer . |