Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 2 | Her sister listened to The Moody Blues , Jay listened to Bob Dylan , Joan Baez , The Kinks : she despised the early , clean-cut Beatles and mods . |
| 3 | Her foot slipped on the smooth tiles and a frightened little cry left her lips about one second before Mitch moved like lightning and caught her , his arms tightly around her , holding her close . |
| 4 | Another ‘ scholarship girl ’ was shamefully treated by the rest of us because of her ( very slight ) Cockney accent , her generally ‘ non-U ’ turns of phrase , and her inability to deal with the simpler points of etiquette , whether at table or in the classroom . |
| 5 | There she was , hair swept up as usual , mannishness accentuated by a tailored suit , her presence haloed by the only perfume she ever wore , if she wore any at all . |
| 6 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 7 | Flinging herself round and seeing at least three inches of her hair lying on the wooden floor , she yelled , ‘ How dare you ! |
| 8 | Fand lay on it , her hair spread over the dark wood . |
| 9 | He smiled and Robyn watched and felt her heart stop for the hundredth time . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 11 | Leonora gazed at him in silence , her heart beating against the blue chambray shirt like a tom-tom . |
| 12 | That I have much more of this world 's goods than Garry will ever have could n't help you to that decision , could it ? ’ he said , and her heart sank at the cynical twist to his mouth and his bitter tone . |
| 13 | She looked up , and her heart quailed at the thunderous expression he wore . |
| 14 | Her heart dropped at the ominous statement . |
| 15 | Firemen had climb through a window to rescue Natalie Prosser , aged 13 months , from her home at The Fairway , Saltburn , yesterday after she managed to slam the French windows shut when her mum popped into the back garden . |
| 16 | ‘ Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Her Mum smiled at the woebegone face . |
| 18 | Her tiredness fled before the immediate prospect of encountering her new employer . |
| 19 | THREE years and five months after the Aga Khan 's Aliysa was first past the post in the 1989 Oaks , the latest chapter in the saga of her disqualification begins at the High Court today . |
| 20 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 21 | Lying on her back and deftly working upwards through the small mottle-leaved bushes , she allowed her mind to drift towards the recent past . |
| 22 | ‘ Somebody is doing that ? ’ she queried innocently , her mind darting to the perfumed letter he had received . |
| 23 | For a long while she stayed there without moving , her mind filled with the dull ache of loss and of longing for what might have been . |
| 24 | Her mind raced around the nameless colours in the sky and the tantalising word warm which they refused to speak or explain . |
| 25 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 26 | All the way home she found her mind turning to the red roses , and the person whose birthday it was . |
| 27 | She greeted their neighbours absentmindedly as she passed them in their yards , her mind occupied with the new argument against the shoes . |
| 28 | She propped herself up on one elbow and looked down at his face in the starlight , her mind tangling on the mental arithmetic . |
| 29 | Cleo turned and craned her neck to take in the massive black pile rising behind them . |
| 30 | He was imprisoned up there , beneath the lead roof , ’ Lucenzo said , pulling her close , his head against hers as she craned her neck to look at the pink and white Doges ' Palace . |