Example sentences of "[noun] ' [noun sg] 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 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 .
8 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 .
9 " 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 At Sikes ' voice she raised her head from her work .
14 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 .
15 In true Burrows ' fashion she was looking forward to it and convinced that this was what God wanted her to do .
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