Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her skin had at one stage , unusual in a redhead , been almost chocolate-brown and silk-smooth , but she was a northern redhead , and had passed beyond the russet and the Negro , back to a strange peeled patchwork , toast-cinder brown , radish-crimson , freckled bone and the translucent grey of flaking skin still shifting . |
| 2 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |
| 3 | Her confidence grew at each visit . |
| 4 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 5 | ‘ She and her husband stayed at Carinish Court . ’ |
| 6 | She had the air of a female terrorist ; someone who might take it into her head to shoot at any moment . |
| 7 | The lady was so impressed , she called her assistant to look at this miracle ‘ All done in one week ! ’ |
| 8 | Here in Brighton not so long ago , she and members of her Cabinet experienced at first hand all the skills , courage and dedication of my colleagues . |
| 9 | Its clamourings against solitude were a constant distraction from the cooler processes of thought ; yet even as her spirit chafed at this conflict between body and mind , Louisa understood that such stress was specific to her task and not to be avoided . |
| 10 | The chances of any of her acquaintance passing at this moment and noting that she , Phoebe Petherington , was entering the evil portals of a private hospital , were , she admitted , so small as to be risible , but that did not allay her shame . |
| 11 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 12 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 13 | Were her family offended at this shot-gun marriage ? |
| 14 | Clelia and her mother looked at each other blankly , and " We do n't know , " they said , " we never like to ask . " |
| 15 | With that he turned and marched from the kitchen , leaving Rachel and her mother staring at each other . |