Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy contemplated her future , which seemed to stretch before her in a pattern of bleakness , especially where her social life was concerned . |
| 2 | Mrs Stych was having difficulty starting her little car , so Mrs Frizzell bobbed her flower-decked head down until her hawklike nose was level with the half-open window . |
| 3 | She left no will and was unmarried , so because her nearest relatives were her brother and sister , they shared her estate . |
| 4 | Her daughter Chandrika , whose politics have not altered much since her Left Bank days as a student at the Sorbonne , will be the province 's chief minister . |
| 5 | I wondered suddenly whether her unexpected visit could have anything to do with my phone call . |
| 6 | Belinda was starting to feel a proprietorial sort of pride in Faye 's work , especially as her own knowledge of painting increased . |
| 7 | Sure to be a scream : America 's most famous fiends , The Addams Family , are coming to the monster screen , Anjelica Huston is perfectly cast as the deliciously decadent Morticia , and Raul Julia no less so as her ghoulish soul mate Gomez . |
| 8 | She thought of the baby only as her last blunder in loving , a mistake leading her nearer to this dreadful woe . |
| 9 | She wants to live with foster parents rather than her four brothers and sisters and mother . |
| 10 | Yet coupled with the seizure of Polish territory in 1772 it helped to emphasize Prussia 's affinities with her eastern rather than her western neighbours . |
| 11 | Throughout the pamphlet Hic Mulier seems to be in sympathy with this remark of Montaigne 's , but nowhere is her appropriation of the idea more challenging than in the way she dissolves both law and ideological fixity into a celebration of change and transformation , and , by implication , a celebration of her potential rather than her fixed nature : ‘ Nor do I in my delight of change otherwise than as the whole world does ’ ( sig . |
| 12 | It seemed to Harriet that Liza must have unburdened herself to Dr Forman rather than her own mother and somehow this increased her sense of resentment . |
| 13 | James constructed magnificent tombs for the two protagonists , Mary and Elizabeth , in Westminster Abbey ; and the more-or-less ‘ official ’ account by William Camden in his Annals ( 1615 ) emphasized Mary 's evil fortunes rather than her evil character . |
| 14 | Navratilova , who said she would definitely return to the circuit next year , said it would probably be her mental attitude rather than her physical ability that determines her future . |
| 15 | She felt the distance from England far more acutely than her preoccupied spouse ; her thoughts were with the children , and , even at this early stage , she longed for the voyage home . |
| 16 | His face , less hollowed and drawn already than her first impression of it , possessed a quality in repose she could only describe as beauty , of a very virile , masculine variety . |
| 17 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 18 | Oh , and the ward clerk 's away because her little boy has chickenpox , so that 's more work for us , unless they can send us a replacement . ’ |
| 19 | Just because her astrological theories were being proved right . |
| 20 | Not since her old man . |
| 21 | At last , with greasy fingers , she managed to guide him to her saturated hole , and he penetrated her as easily as her own fingers did when she masturbated . |
| 22 | Vaughan 's dinner cooking usually begins just as her two sons return from school in the afternoon . |
| 23 | The feeling bound her to the household , just as her own actions now bound her to the nigger , and the two things were tied together yet so opposite they were pulling her apart . |
| 24 | Just as her own concerns were now absorbing her fully , the desire to see Luke , to be in his arms again paramount , the need to end their relationship ignored for the moment . |
| 25 | Other teachers and other girls were forever taking fancies to each other , but there was something strangely eccentric about Mrs Hill 's fancy , just as her whole position in the school was eccentric . |
| 26 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |
| 27 | Liz is now under close watch at her Bel Air home where her seventh husband Larry Fortensky is nursing her . |
| 28 | She 'd said she loved her father more than her uniformed claimant . |
| 29 | Pauline Bishop has done more than her fair share of globe-trotting . |
| 30 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |