Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothy Hardisty did not actually take over from Sir Charles Stead as executive director until the outbreak of war , but by then she had already made her presence felt as an able and energetic deputy . |
| 2 | Her long black tresses were to go and her hair restyled with a soft perm . |
| 3 | Her heart thudded with a fierce violence . |
| 4 | Her heart went to a 57-year-old man , her liver to a baby of eight months , her kidneys to a teenage girl and boy , and her corneas were used to save the sight of two people . |
| 5 | Her heart lurched into an erratic beat . |
| 6 | Her heart lurched with an indefinable longing . |
| 7 | And while her heart plodded to a dull beat , ‘ It looks as if I shall have to work the entire weekend , ’ he stated . |
| 8 | The vacuum cleaner ran smoothly , efficiently over the rich dark-yellow pile , collecting cigarette ash , canapé crumbs , scattered bulb fibre ; her mind sang with a faint clear high-pitched hum like a well-serviced machine . |
| 9 | Her neck rose in a long , rounded column to a face which , though not classically beautiful — the nose was too tilted , the mouth too wide — was heart-stopping in its freshness , its air of innocence combined with its look of deep , untapped feminine knowledge . |
| 10 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 11 | Her mouth opened in a round O of woe on an undulating panorama of partially masticated cream bun . |
| 12 | The irreversibility of her mutilation lay like a fallen tree across her spirit . |
| 13 | ‘ Let me never forget ’ — her anxiety relaxed into a peaceful seriousness — ‘ the beauty of that sight ’ . |
| 14 | Dorothea stayed in the sunlit kitchen with her tea , happy at the letter , her loss of purpose , her anxiety dissipated like a past illness , already wondered at , the symptoms forgotten . |
| 15 | Her cackle turned into a bronchial cough . |
| 16 | But by the morning of the fifth day , rider and horse became a team , and by that afternoon Artemis and her teacher went for a stiff ten-mile hack . |
| 17 | She refused even to look at Ace , although her body clamoured with a painful intensity as soon as he came to stand next to her . |
| 18 | British Rail could win back part of the record damages paid to a widow after her husband died from an asbestos-related disease . |
| 19 | Her head throbbed like a burst boil , but there was nothing there … |
| 20 | His mouth met hers with bruising force , and the clamour inside her head rose to a deafening crescendo , the world twisted and turned , tossing her adrift with the turbulence of a whirlwind . |
| 21 | She had n't known , when she agreed to Caro 's suggestion , that her friend lived on a narrow boat . |
| 22 | Her smile turned into a feral grin as she glanced at her wrist computer . |
| 23 | At the top of the lighthouse Grace and her father came into a small room . |
| 24 | ‘ Now take this meatloaf , boys , ’ her father announced after a long silence , for no-one talked unless directly addressed by the head of the family . |
| 25 | Her father saw in a vulgar simulacrum of coloured lights and trilling music a true portrayal of a great maritime tragedy ; whereas for her the reality was best conveyed by a simple , static canvas adorned with pigment . |
| 26 | In the gap between the brassière and the pinched waistband of her skirt , her flesh bulged in a pale soft band . |
| 27 | Her breath came in a shaky release of tension . |
| 28 | In 1852 Empress Amélia , widow of King Pedro IV of Brazil , and her daughter arrived on a Portuguese navy boat , and in 1860 Elizabeth , Empress of Austria , wife of Franz Josef , arrived on the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert . |
| 29 | Her government began with a huge surrender , the quite unexpected settlement in which she acquiesced which ended the long-running saga of British relations with the former Southern Rhodesia , now renamed Zimbabwe . |
| 30 | Every time Ellie crept into her dead mother 's room , she knew she should not be there , and she would hesitate on the threshold of the airless room , while the skin on her scalp prickled with a guilty excitement . |