Example sentences of "her only " in BNC.
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| 1 | And her only words to him are : Now you are free to tell that you have seen me all unrobed — if you can tell ! |
| 2 | A young girl discovers that the old shepherd across the valley , her only friend , is passionately in love with her . |
| 3 | His or her only links are the A&R staff and perhaps the marketing people . |
| 4 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 5 | She hated herself for it , and went on and on , convinced that her only defence was to make Rachel throw her out again , and Rachel refused to be provoked . |
| 6 | Then they took her pay packet away ; they would give her only £5 and she had to go to her sisters and borrow money for her clothes and things . |
| 7 | Her husband 's dead and her only child . |
| 8 | Her hair was also dark , her life erratic and her only relative an aunt in County Leix . |
| 9 | Fond as she is of children , however , they are by no means her only interest . |
| 10 | If the thing persisted , her only remaining lung would collapse under a bag of pus and she would die , because she could no longer breathe . |
| 11 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 12 | ( The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield , Oxford , 1984 : her only brother had been killed in France two months before . ) |
| 13 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 14 | Hooking is her only business . |
| 15 | It seemed that she , now a widow , lived in Scotland with her only child , Celia , her son-in-law , and their two little boys . |
| 16 | It is not her only medium . |
| 17 | She had been a friend of Emily 's ; possibly her only friend ; but if Mr Zamoyski was right , she had not been generally liked . |
| 18 | Her only sin is age . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 20 | Anna stayed in the paddock , and her only contact with people was when she was chased into a yard and chute for worming and branding , or else had two legs at a time strapped up to facilitate an occasional trimming of her hooves . |
| 21 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 22 | His wife lay there so limp , so insubstantial , her black hair hanging down like the tail of a whipped animal and one white hand clutching his sleeve as though it were her only hold on life . |
| 23 | She said her only hope of having the boys returned was if her husband had difficulty in looking after them . |
| 24 | She is abandoned in the home all day , unable to communicate with her teenage daughter , Camille , and her only proper friendship is with a neighbour , Constance . |
| 25 | Reid insists on being considered only as a single sculler and her only chance now is to enter Cologne and Essen privately to try to make her case . |
| 26 | Pamela 's major qualities were courage , humour and broadmindedness , although the last of these was put to the test , first when her only brother became a Roman Catholic , then when her only daughter married one . |
| 27 | Pamela 's major qualities were courage , humour and broadmindedness , although the last of these was put to the test , first when her only brother became a Roman Catholic , then when her only daughter married one . |
| 28 | Anger was her only protection and , deliberately feeding it , Trent shouted , ‘ Do n't play games , Mariana . |
| 29 | They are not , however , her only responses . |
| 30 | She dearly wished that her only daughter had settled down with Les Williams , a hardworking friend of her son . |