Example sentences of "and her [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She straightened , holding the small of her back and her bulge at the same time . |
| 2 | FREED prisoner Karl Maxwell-Smith flew home to Britain from Thailand yesterday — and met his granddaughter and her mum for the first time . |
| 3 | It set in motion an inquiry into the truth concerning the Princess of Wales , her marriage and her life within the royal family . |
| 4 | Brushing her wispy fringe away from her hot forehead , she settled the strap of her bag over her shoulder and , taking her case in one hand and her grip in the other , struggled off the bus . |
| 5 | Her unusually youthful looks meant Kylie could play a girl four years her junior and her portrayal of the spirited 12-year-old Charlene helped make The Henderson Kids a hit in Australia . |
| 6 | Again , if I call my mother and her sister by the same term ( 'mother' ) , then both behave maternally towards me — though not necessarily with the same intensity of feeling . |
| 7 | Its menace and her memory of the cold cruelty of the man , together with the realization that it was the point of a knife pricking her neck , made her shudder . |
| 8 | The judge described the foster mother and her home in the following passage from his judgment : |
| 9 | Here her expressive rubato is freer , so that in the first movement the opening theme is more impulsive , and her freedom in the second subject vividly conveys the sort of magic you find in her live performances . |
| 10 | One woman found that when different family members were all demanding different things and her attention at the same time , ‘ something blows ’ . |
| 11 | The intensity of that face turned her mourning and her stillness into the mere dark casing of a lantern . |
| 12 | Her little heart-shaped face was lost amidst the abundance of black hair , her nose was too big , and her mouth with the upper lip thinner than the lower showed her determination to have her own way . |
| 13 | A BBC spokesman said : ‘ If all goes well and when Anne feels up to it , we will introduce her and her baby to the Good Morning audience . ’ |
| 14 | A BBC spokesman said : ‘ If all goes well and when Anne feels up her and her baby to the Good Morning audience . ’ |
| 15 | She found two seats free not far from the Lorrimores and , putting herself on one chair and her handbag on the other , said with bonhomie to the elderly couple already occupying the table , ‘ I 'm Daffodil Quentin . |
| 16 | So Auntie , her umbrella in one hand and her handbag in the other , set out . |
| 17 | In that sensible frame of mind she had hurried downstairs to join her daughter — who had beaten her to the breakfast table again ! — and her host in the sunny conservatory . |
| 18 | Her jaw and cheekbone were broken , and her room at The Green residential home in Redruth , Cornwall , was splattered with blood . |
| 19 | Thanks also to Lynn Inglis and her team for the many newsletters they produced to such a high standard . |
| 20 | She broke off and her glance round the bare kitchen was more eloquent than words . |
| 21 | It was said to be strongly critical of her role in its publication , her relationship with her husband and her role within the Royal Family . |
| 22 | She was doing well at St Hilda 's College in Oxford , and her devotion to the Seventh Day Adventist Church gained admiration from the congregation . |
| 23 | Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning . |
| 24 | To this hidden land come Leo Vincey and Holly after twenty years of wandering in search of the goddess woman and here the pair of them are involved with the rebellion of Atene and her husband against the secret ruler Ayesha , now called He s ( or Isis ) . |
| 25 | Later the same year the whole family set off for Vienna , where the children played to the Empress Maria Theresia and her consort at the beautiful Schönbrunn palace . |
| 26 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 27 | Dorothy Sayers separates her description of the picture and her list of the fallen paints here by only a few pages ( which is perhaps why I guessed , for once ) but you can see how similar clues can be kept in two parts with dozens of pages between them . |
| 28 | Mistinguett was drawing huge crowds at the FoliesBergeres ; the great Bernhardt , though aged and ailing , was still as seductive as ever , dividing her time between the theatre and her hospital for the wounded at the Odéon ; at the Opéra Comique Manon was all the rage , and in May , when the Germans were hammering their way on to Côte 304 , there was a glittering film premiere of Salammbô and once again the Spring Flower Show was reinstated in all its pre-war glory . |
| 29 | Whatever the circumstances an open and frank discussion must take place between the new employee and her manager at the earliest opportunity . |
| 30 | And her dislike of the insincere ran so deep that she would rather publicly disclaim all grief for her dead husband than be accused of insincerity . |