Example sentences of "her [noun sg] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deposited her case at the front door then strode back to his car , and she watched him go with hatred , her eyes moving over his powerful body , so lean , so tall , so impeccably dressed . |
| 2 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 3 | Shelley felt a tug at her heart at the sudden attraction of him , the perfect body and the face that looked so much more natural and attractive out here in the warm southern wind . |
| 4 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 5 | Mrs Chalker , who lost her seat at the general election , faced giving up her job as Minister of the Overseas Development Administration and Britain 's leading representative at the European Bank , leaving a gap in the British team but will continue in her post from the House of Lords . |
| 6 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 7 | ‘ She took her insulin at the right time , and ate properly ? ’ |
| 8 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 9 | Arriving on her broomstick at the prison-like school gates , Mildred peered through the railings into the misty playground . |
| 10 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 11 | Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes . |
| 12 | ‘ It having been stated to Samuel Whitbread Esq. , and to me … that Mary Flint , now in the Bedford Infirmary , is in danger of death in consequence of the wounds and injuries which she received from you , we intend to take her examination at the said Infirmary on Tuesday 8th October inst. at 1 o'clock of the afternoon of which I give you this notice that you may if you think proper be present . ’ |
| 13 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
| 14 | Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin , leaving her standing at the open door . |
| 15 | She nodded her head at the cardiac monitor screen over against the far wall . |
| 16 | Red lights seemed to explode inside her head at the outrageous arrogance of his words . |
| 17 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 18 | In her self-portrait at the national Portrait Gallery she appears ‘ characteristically in a suit ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps the old gods had been listening , when she 'd made her wish at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 20 | Clarissa clicked her tongue at the other end of the line . |
| 21 | Jess stuck out her tongue at the broad back and said in demure tones : ‘ No , but her is … no offence meant . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Gee up now , ’ she cried , clicking her tongue at the old mare . |
| 23 | Famous writer and critic Marghanita Laski expressed her amazement at the strange treatment given to ‘ such words as those till recently written as f-dash and c-dash ’ . |
| 24 | The Springfield Striders veteran , fresh from her success at the previous weekend 's Border Half-Marathon , clocked 2.06.13 . |
| 25 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 26 | Curbishley won the senior women 's race in an encouraging 63.7 seconds , even though she tore a ligament at the side of her knee at the halfway mark . |
| 27 | The woman whose title had baffled Eileen waved her hand at the other girl dismissively . |
| 28 | She paid her account at the Imperial Hotel , and with her maid staggering under six hatboxes followed by a small procession of luggage borne by sturdy footmen , she climbed into a victoria to depart for the railway station . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , no , pray , ’ she begged , dropping the bread and rising also , and casting an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed door . |
| 30 | Rachel took a deep breath and glanced from one to the other then over her shoulder at the closed door of her sister 's ground-floor bedroom . |