Example sentences of "[coord] her [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 According to the AMA argument , any attempt by the government to prevent individuals having high-priced plans would , again , violate his or her Fifth Amendment rights .
2 Dr Sharon Camp , who edited the Index , said : ‘ A child born in Mozambique today can expect to live only 48 years and has a one in seven chance of dying before his or her first birthday .
3 It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language .
4 According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English .
5 I reasoned that this was where I would find a small breeder advertising his or her first clutches of chicks for sale — someone who was n't big enough to justify advertising all year round .
6 After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 .
7 The card is valid until the holder reaches his or her 20th birthday .
8 He thought that headhunters were kept on their toes by the generally-held view — expressed frequently both inside and outside the headhunting industry — that a consultant is only as good as his or her last assignment .
9 She continues like this until either her last bead drops into an empty hole and her turn ends ; or her last bead dropped creates a new four-bead group in one hole .
10 such person has not reached his or her seventy-first birthday at the time of injury
11 Merrill slept late on Sunday morning , and her first concern was for Richard .
12 Eleanor 's husband had secured his first lectureship , and her first novel had been acclaimed in literary circles .
13 She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it .
14 It was a line that began with the excavation work at the Heavenite observatory and her first trip in the TARDIS ( how could you forget the TARDIS ? ) , continued with a confused recollection of pointing a gun at the Doctor in a tunnel somewhere , and ended on Sakkrat ( Sakkrat ?
15 She was in an advanced state of pregnancy and her first child was born on the spot by caesarean section .
16 Jacqueline was already pregnant , and her first child , was born soon after , defying medical concerns about her robustness for giving birth .
17 For Ruth had been married to Connor 's brother Sean , and her first child — a fine boy called Danny — had been born four years ago .
18 Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class .
19 She was first elected branch representative in 1978 and her first involvement at Area Council level was in 1981 .
20 It was afternoon before Marian awoke and her first thought was of the body lying face downward on the grass .
21 Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head .
22 She stared into that tough face and her first thought was , Do you ?
23 She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat .
24 The girl is eventually divorced and will return to her parents and her first love .
25 Topaz knew that he was teasing her and her first nervousness was gone .
26 Mrs Aquino also hinted that her Vice-President , Mr Salvador Laurel , and her first cousin and a Marcos associate , Mr Eduardo Cojuangco , were involved in the plot .
27 The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen .
28 In this session Ann talked of her deprived early life and her first marriage , which ended when her husband walked out .
29 Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes .
30 Going by past experience , there was a high probability that something had happened to the others , and her first instinct was to go and search for them .
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