Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Macpherson bit her blue lips with her artificial teeth and looked down her beaky nose at the bland , well-powdered face beside her . |
| 2 | ‘ Babies are n't her favourite subject at the best of times . |
| 3 | She reportedly was injured in her quarterfinal match at the French Open and received pain-killing injections before her semi-final and final matches . |
| 4 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 5 | The little girl to whom Wolfgang had impudently proposed marriage when they were children was now Queen of France ; and tales of her extravagant lifestyle at the glittering court of Versailles were stirring up murmurs of discontent among ordinary Frenchmen , setting alight a fuse which 11 years later was to blow not only France but much of Europe apart . |
| 6 | She pulled the strings of her apron until the bow at the back was just right , and perched her white cap at the correct angle on her head to make it sit pertly on her dark curls . |
| 7 | But she 's not really complaining : Mozart launched her international career at the 1982 Aix Festival when at short notice , and at only 25 , she took on the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute . |
| 8 | Imagine what would happen if ‘ Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ’ could n't get her first-class mauve at the local sub-PO . |
| 9 | Nice to meet you … 10-month-old Eleanor Kilroy makes friends with Winnie and her unnamed pal at the annual teddy bears ' picnic organised by Crosby and District branch of the National Childbirth Trust at Blundellsands Key Park on Saturday when several teddies and their owners joined in the fun and frolics . |
| 10 | Laura had often wondered whether their union had always been doomed to failure … whether her deep unhappiness at the sudden death of her mother , and her father 's disastrous illness , had merely accelerated the inevitable swift decline and end to her marriage . |
| 11 | She was forty seven and the youngest member since Commissioner Catherine Bramwell Booth had made her reluctant appearance at the first High Council . |
| 12 | At Flowers East , Alison Watt is showing nude portraits , some of which are self-portraits , and smaller head studies ( to 18 April ) in her first gallery exhibition since her impressive debut at the Scottish Gallery in 1990 . |
| 13 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 14 | Personally , Kael is said to dominate an awestruck group of colleagues collectively dubbed ‘ Paulettes ’ , but it 's hard to equate the woman genially holding forth in her modest office at the New Yorker with the flinty matriarch of legend . |
| 15 | In her new job at the nuclear factory , what did Karen have to do ? |
| 16 | Shivers of reaction were coursing through her whole body at the rhythmic touch of his fingers on her skin . |
| 17 | Marcelle , looking through the window from her corner seat , wrinkled her sensitive nose at the grimy roofs and façades of houses and buildings , the train steaming towards Clapham at a steady speed . |
| 18 | A writer , then , perhaps : and Clara , searching for help , directed her excellent vision at the distant titles of the books on the shelves behind Martin 's head . |