Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 2 | She felt her heart quicken as a car came up the drive and stopped in front of her . |
| 3 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 4 | China may not have been unsympathetic towards the neutralisation of the region , but may have been doubtful about her capacity to act as a guarantor of such a regime . |
| 5 | Then the icy touch of the water reminded her that she had planned to cool the hock in it for Finn and the bastard was n't here ; and for a moment her towel served as a handkerchief as she mourned , and then , since she considered it degrading to weep for a faithless man , she dried her eyes and her ears and under her chin and returned with springing step to the cottage . |
| 6 | Born in Lagos in 1944 , she was brought up by relatives after her father died as a result of war service in Burma and her mother returned to Ibo . |
| 7 | In the second case a woman of 27 is seeking damages for contracting lymphoma in 1988 , the treatment for which has left her permanently disabled and sterile ; her father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for more than 20 years . |
| 8 | So for ten minutes an innocent young lady was held up on her journey to work as a photographer issued instructions . |
| 9 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 10 | Words deserted her , leaving her hands flapping as a substitute . |
| 11 | Considerable variations in format are possible , depending on what the teacher wants her students to achieve as a result of her teaching . |