Example sentences of "[noun] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia nodded , unable to put into words her intense love and longing for Roman . |
| 2 | The opposition her public career provoked — as a single woman speaking about sexuality — showed that despite the gains made by repeal feminism , women still risked censure and social ostracization when they crossed the boundaries from the private to the public sphere . |
| 3 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 4 | The baby may well protest loudly but the mother has to keep in mind her ultimate goal . |
| 5 | She paused as if turning over in her mind her next words before giving them substance . |
| 6 | She did not give their talk her whole attention . |
| 7 | When Anna May Reese took a new lover her estranged husband was seized with murderous jealousy . |
| 8 | As a result her handsome husband shrank into a shrivelled old man until he was so deformed the gods took pity on him and turned him into a cicada — one of the first creatures to excitedly greet the dawn on a warm summer 's day . |
| 9 | Due to the long-past agony of soul-binding her blind eyes were opaque and curdled . |
| 10 | At first all refused and then Miss Knox agreed on condition her two friends would follow . |
| 11 | The Hutchinsons were involved in the great Antinomian controversy by which the infant colony was riven in 1636–8 , Richard 's sister-in-law being the feminist leader Anne Hutchinson ( née Marbury , q.v. ) , and his brother-in-law her closest ally , the Revd John Wheelwright . |
| 12 | Or she who earns by toil her daily fare : |
| 13 | On Friday her remarkable courage will be recognised on Esther Rantzen 's Hearts Of Gold ( BBC1 , 8pm ) . |
| 14 | Emily did not show Ellen her new ring ; the glove covered it . |
| 15 | In the early days of World Championship Grand Prix racing Brazil had to sit back and watcher her next-door neighbour Argentina take all the honours through Juan Manuel Fangio . |
| 16 | Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll … |
| 17 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 18 | How dared he question her integrity , the very fabric her entire being was built around ? |
| 19 | Suzie dragged her unruly locks to the nape of her neck and snapped a clip across the tangles , scowling at the dishevelled effect her best efforts always created . |
| 20 | Stella is a wild card both in the deepest recesses of Serena 's own mind and in the domain of middlemen , for Stella is the only character in the novel who is exempt from this status : ‘ Stella was in effect her own middleman , alone in the world , selling her personality , and very badly ’ ( 30 ) . |
| 21 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 22 | It 's only natural she should want to be with kids her own age . ’ |
| 23 | The shop-floor seemed strangely silent in the absence of the usual sounds of machinery , hammering and drilling and to Rachel 's disappointment her own centre was also empty . |
| 24 | thanks her many friends for the lovely selection of get well cards and letters she has recently received . |
| 25 | Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way . |
| 26 | All it had done was grant her professional membership ‘ on the same basis as everybody else — i.e. , specifically on her qualifications and experience as a chemist ’ ! |
| 27 | She 'd better milk her brindled Cows : |
| 28 | One aide let into the secret of the wedding plans said : ‘ All we have been told is that the question was asked on board her new boat . |
| 29 | It was an option she did n't usually have , kissing a gorgeous man on board her own ship . |
| 30 | But , one day , while Katie is teaching Ben her latest song , Ben is snatched from under her eyes by kidnappers . |