Example sentences of "[subord] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 2 | She saw him as soon as she started across the room towards the antique chest of drawers where her casual clothes were kept . |
| 3 | There was a neat solid bulge where her flat belly had been . |
| 4 | Soaking wet , and with a bloody stump where her right arm had been , Susan found herself in the cabin of an airship . |
| 5 | The Stillmans moved to Florence in 1878 , whence she continued to send work regularly to exhibitions in Britain and the USA , where her first appearance in 1875 had drawn favourable notice from the novelist and art amateur Henry James [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Each member of her family and each of her close friends will have different strengths upon which she will need to draw , and together you should try to form a bridge over which she can gradually cross from the barren wasteland of her sorrow back into society where her new role awaits her . |
| 7 | The Air Force assigned 42–108777 to the Santa Maria Air Base where her two-seat capability was put to good use . |
| 8 | And she made her exit , to the kitchen , where her real worry was not so much the butlers as the cook , Deirdre Kavanagh , ex-girlfriend of her eldest stepson Jonathan , a mad and dreadful girl with a talent for puff pastry and a conviction that she was a femme fatale , a conviction alas supported by her authentic Irish beauty and her seductive Irish brogue . |
| 9 | Jean never questioned where her public-spirited husband was really going . |
| 10 | A few months later came the California Motion Picture Corporation 's Salvation Nell , in which we follow the adventures of a young girl from the New York tenements , where her drunken father kills her mother and where all her associates are drunks or wasters , through to happiness in the arms of a Salvation Army major . |
| 11 | Liz is now under close watch at her Bel Air home where her seventh husband Larry Fortensky is nursing her . |
| 12 | POLICE have found the van belonging to a murdered social worker half-a-mile from the drugs centre where her battered body was found . |
| 13 | One early decision was sorting out where her 17-year-old son , Michael , was going to sleep as there were only three bedrooms for four people . |
| 14 | And then to watch Annunciata trip back to the kitchen , where her own Ferdinando was preparing supper , was too much . |
| 15 | Dana had a blind spot where her own interests lay . |
| 16 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 17 | Where her own fantasy fitted in , he did not know . |
| 18 | She heard her grandmother informing her that out there , in that Mongolian vastness , was ‘ The Dragon 's Tomb ’ where her own great-grandfather had gone to find the dinosaur eggs . |
| 19 | Secure in your status at work , becoming a parent may cause confusion — a woman may have to adjust from a professional role to a maternal one , where her own needs become relegated ; a father may have to adjust to there being a new small person in the family who makes his role seem less significant . |
| 20 | He ignored her , lifting her with his strong arms on to the bed , his hands still on her thighs and dangerously moving inwards where her own fires burned unchecked , waiting to be extinguished . |
| 21 | Lucy contemplated her future , which seemed to stretch before her in a pattern of bleakness , especially where her social life was concerned . |
| 22 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 23 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
| 24 | Naturally , I hope Heather is alive , but , if she is , she has every right to expect that I will observe absolute confidentiality where her medical history is concerned . |
| 25 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 26 | She swung her long tanned legs over the edge of the bed , forgetting for a moment that she was naked underneath the loosely tied robe , and when she stood up she could feel his eyes trailing insultingly at the V where her naked breasts could be glimpsed . |
| 27 | The results would be used to decorate the house or hall where her artistic flair again showed in the colour and composition of her arrangements . |
| 28 | Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess , where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension . |
| 29 | Betty Gilling was at the cottage door , her white hair knotted prettily on top of her head and her arms folded over the mound of her stomach where her eighth child was curled , almost ready to be born . |
| 30 | Julie Hall , the 1987 English Champion who was to finish as high as third , had an opening 82 which took in an 8 at the 12th where her 2-iron second took off in a gust and ended in rough so deep that her third was an air shot . |