Example sentences of "[noun] ' [noun] she " in BNC.
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1 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
2 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
3 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
4 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
5 | A woman , described by two Portlaoise psychiatrists , had not only taken to swigging Jeyes ' fluid she had also become dependent on it . |
6 | THE death of a woman from pneumonia brought on by Legionnaires ' disease she had contracted while a patient in a Liverpool hospital 's newly-opened heart unit was accidental , an inquest jury decided yesterday . |
7 | However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred . |
8 | But as she was passing the Misses Cardings ' shop she heard a loud tapping on the upper part of the door ; then it was pulled open and Miss Belle Carding beckoned Agnes towards her , saying , ‘ Come in a minute , dear . |
9 | As the weeks go by she begins to receive visitors at the refuge and when she begins to feel the marriage is over , with the workers ' help she starts negotiating with the council and housing associations for a new flat , although she also feels the refuge is home , a safe space that is becoming more and more difficult to leave . |
10 | Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow . |
11 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
12 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
13 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
14 | I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited . |
15 | Just as she was bombarded by voices telling her to accept the doctors ' recommendations she discovered that she was pregnant . |
16 | It is just as well that Plainsong seemed to take to the track on her debut in the Fillies ' Maiden she was aimed at the race because owner Peter Innes was a steward at the meeting . |
17 | At Sikes ' voice she raised her head from her work . |
18 | But when Flavia turned into the Fourniers ' drive she saw that she had been spared that errand as well , for there , shining , immobile , unconcerned , stood the long car . |
19 | In true Burrows ' fashion she was looking forward to it and convinced that this was what God wanted her to do . |
20 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |