Example sentences of "her [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lek , the thirty-year-old maid installed for her along with the furniture by the Committee , telling her about the nine children and the mother up-country she supports and whom she rarely sees . |
| 2 | They let me hold her for a few minutes and then they took her away upstairs to Special Care . |
| 3 | In fact , she did not realise she was to have the honour conferred on her for a few days after the letter arrived . |
| 4 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 5 | And when she jumped up again , the chair sort of stuck to the seat of those awful green breeches she wears and came up with her for a few seconds until the thick syrup slowly came unstuck . |
| 6 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 7 | If you feel that your child may be mixing with youngsters who sniff glue , you could talk to your child and warn him or her of the possible risks and dangers involved . |
| 8 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 9 | But a childhood gaining a reputation as an impulsive scatterbrain should n't preclude her from the same opportunities and privileges her brother received , should it ? |
| 10 | One friend who was told of the contents of the letter reveals : ‘ He told her in no uncertain terms that she had to help maintain the dignity of the Crown and consider the repercussions of her actions to the Queen . |
| 11 | A close friend confirmed : ‘ He told her in no uncertain terms that she had to consider the repercussions of her actions to the Queen . |
| 12 | Florrie told her in no uncertain terms that she would have to get used to it . |
| 13 | He told her in no uncertain terms that his father , the Duke of Edinburgh had agreed that if , after five years , his marriage was not working he could go back to his bachelor habits . |
| 14 | Her father had told her in no uncertain terms that she 'd lost her mind . |
| 15 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |
| 16 | No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking . |
| 17 | I can guess , for instance , that an academic in the drama field , Richard Courtney , was embarrassed by her in the early days because she does not fit his Sladian view of what drama teaching is about . |
| 18 | She felt a flood of heat as he stared down at her , felt the deepening intensity of his gaze on her in the few seconds before his mouth descended slowly to take possession of her lips . |
| 19 | He spoke to her outside the social services and pleaded with her to come home . |
| 20 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 21 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 22 | She remembered their birthdays , sent notes of apology to their wives when they had to accompany her on an overseas tours and ensured that they were ‘ fed and watered ’ when she went out with them from Kensington Palace . |
| 23 | Jones , an interesting newcomer with a simmering , highly charged air , is the daughter of an absentee Italian mother , which does not endear her to the xenophobic locals and an unemployed woodsman father , Seiriol Tomos , who disappears and leaves her in the care of his cold , embittered sister Maggie , Sue Jones-Davies giving everyone very beady looks . |
| 24 | A neighbour suggested I go along with her to the local WI and , despite my reservations , I had a wonderful time . |
| 25 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |