Example sentences of "her [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Her imagined scenario was : Anne : Are you doing anything tonight ? |
2 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
3 | Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all . |
4 | Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features . |
5 | She peered anxiously into her six-foot-wide dressing-table mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last auburn tint , and found to her satisfaction that all her hair was the same improbable shade . |
6 | Shakespeare referred to her three-fold nature in A Midsummer Night 's Dream : |
7 | Leapor has described a pining country girl and ‘ her cruel , marble-hearted Swain' , both of the sort Mary Jones found so tedious : ’ … the same false Corydon 's , and the same complaining Sylvia 's … |
8 | Her cruel circumstances conspired to put her into a remand home at 14 — and from there she went to an adolescent unit , until the age of 17 . |
9 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
10 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
11 | Before she died , she wrote another book — The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — about a woman who left her cruel husband . |
12 | She imagined Merlyn watching with her cruel eyes and Oliver being silently attentive and Cobalt quietly playing whatever game he was playing . |
13 | ‘ She was very frightened of her cruel husband , but she suspected that he was responsible for Sir Charles ’ death . |
14 | ‘ Was n't there something about a princess locked up by her cruel father ? ’ she hazarded . |
15 | she remained hidden from her cruel stepmother , knowing that one day her prince will come , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a mor as memorable as the songs that fill the movie |
16 | Her inherent sense of duty insisted that , whatever the risks , whatever the dangers , she must speak . |
17 | She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other . |
18 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
19 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
20 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
21 | If Papandreou wishes to continue her righteous quest , she should go back into the smoke-filled rooms of the Bâtiment Berlaymont and re-package her proposals rationally . |
22 | But none of them upstage Stella , the blonde lead singer already battling those patronising Primitives/Darling Buds comparisons , and physically assaulting her fellow band members , monitors and mic stands in her righteous over-enthusiasm . |
23 | Enough to know that her righteous indignation would fade under the realisation that no malice had been intended and no real harm done . |
24 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
25 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
26 | And her posh accent was sufficiently artificial to be laughed at , where a more natural intonation would have alienated audiences . |
27 | Susanna Hoffs strolls across her posh hotel room and shakes hands . |
28 | On her odd nights off she still managed to keep some of the barracks satisfied . |
29 | Charlotte lay stretched upon her bed , waiting to relax enough for her bath , reviewing her evening 's performance with merciless austerity — the oboe is a tyrannical instrument , and demands lofty standards — and confronting her odd , challenging , unknown English great-uncle , unexpectedly lost before she had ever become aware of him . |
30 | He looked at her odd appearance and then frowned . |