Example sentences of "[noun] her [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She paused as if turning over in her mind her next words before giving them substance . |
| 3 | Due to the long-past agony of soul-binding her blind eyes were opaque and curdled . |
| 4 | At first all refused and then Miss Knox agreed on condition her two friends would follow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | thanks her many friends for the lovely selection of get well cards and letters she has recently received . |
| 8 | She 'd better milk her brindled Cows : |
| 9 | She had refused to breast-feed her two children because she thought it disgusting , and my father in middle age had spent many wakeful nights , not cavorting in the pleasure grounds of a foreign city , but walking the floor feeding his children from a bottle while his new wife lay in a sedative-induced slumber . |
| 10 | The other Girls would have had to send money home but Jane set aside a similar sum to tide her over periods of unemployment . |
| 11 | Before the 1979 election her public relations adviser , Gordon Reece , coached her to lower her voice , speak slowly , and present a ‘ soft ’ image and tried to arrange television interviews with relatively non-aggressive interviewers . |
| 12 | In this case her no-arbitrage futures price is S ( 1 + fr ) - D ( 1 + r ) = ( 2400 × 25 × 1.025 ) - ( 1000 × 1.05 ) = £60 450 . |
| 13 | In the court 's majority ( 7-1 ) opinion , however , Justice Harry A. Blackmun wrote that although the punitive damages were more than four times the amount given to compensate Haslip for her injuries , and more than 200 times her out-of-pocket expenses , the award did " not cross the line into the area of constitutional impropriety " . |
| 14 | So Flora put on her green wellies and Jane her black ones , and they marched out over the hills . |
| 15 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 16 | During the presidential campaign her projected involvements have revolved around women and children 's affairs . |
| 17 | It had the glamour that attaches to other people 's privileges ; Barbara did not resent the lack of advantages her own parents had given her , but she wanted those advantages for her own children . |
| 18 | It 's a pity her two husbands left her so well off that she has n't had to worry about money . |
| 19 | She began to ask Simon her usual questions and found that he drove a Merc , preferred cacti to ferns and voted Labour but only because there was no alternative . |
| 20 | For the moment her critical faculties seemed to have deserted her . |
| 21 | The kindness in her voice avoided unspoken criticism and commiseration , " Let me , " in a moment her quick fingers had Nicandra 's gardenia and its drift of green spray firmly in place . |
| 22 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 23 | Warbirds of Norway 's Vampire , former Swiss J-1146 , has gained nose-art in character with the odd nose her last operators gave her . |
| 24 | For a while , she would have to downscale her first impressions . |
| 25 | As more swifts swung over the warm evening sky outside she got increasingly agitated and so great was the sound her clashing talons and lunging beak and wild wings made that all the other birds of prey in the Cages grew restless as well . |
| 26 | They argue that , for Whitehouse in particular , though after the war her formal ties with the Oxford Group diminished , her years of close association with it provided her with a very clear intellectual approach to the perceived ills of the modern world . |
| 27 | He added for good measure : ‘ During the time she is in the shop her domestic duties are being neglected ’ . |
| 28 | So George , a carpenter , bought his primary school teacher wife her first ewes , although at the time she admitted ‘ not knowing one end of a sheep from the other . ’ |
| 29 | She had forgotten the dreadful price her own sisters had paid for that male greed and self-interest . |
| 30 | The funny things her young pupils say and do provide Sarah with a little light relief , but teaching is n't all fun and games . |