Example sentences of "her [noun sg] be [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was splendidly awry because of the lead curling strips which , when removed , would leave her with a glorious gold-bright halo , but which now gave her angry face the fierce and tangled aspect of a Greek Fury . |
| 2 | It is a remarkable fact , Mr Hopkins , that the argument used by the serpent to seduce Eve from her allegiance to her Creator is almost precisely that used by the Editor of The Times : " Ye shall be as GODS , knowing good and evil " … that is , as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 3 | They , however , are far more interested in her husband 's delightfully giggly and flirtatious nieces . |
| 4 | I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again . |
| 5 | Mrs Smith comes home from school four times during the day to make sure her mother is all right and she is also usually up three or four times in the night to attend to her mother . |
| 6 | She thumbed towards the wall as if her mother were just beyond and not at the far end of the corridor . |