Example sentences of "[adv] her [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 2 | If people were not to assume she was talking down to them she had to speed up her presentation and tone down her air of authority . |
| 3 | As it was , she forced down her sense of humour and began to explain what Joe had done , how he had blocked the holes and netted the gate and chased the hare out with Ferry . |
| 4 | Ellen put down her cup of coffee and stared at me as though I had gone completely mad . |
| 5 | Kāli threw down her bunch of ragwort and it landed , splayed out limply , on the top . |
| 6 | But Cad took in their neglect of her sister , and she put down her piece of bread steadily and stood to leave . |
| 7 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 8 | It was only 2s.6d. and rather her sort of thing , I thought . |
| 9 | But it was very seldom her femininity , but rather her image of toughness , determination , and ruthless single-mindedness that dominated public perceptions . |
| 10 | Mary handed over her parcel of food and treats which Kitty took with a happy nod , grateful for the saving kindness . |
| 11 | ‘ Come on , ’ Annie drawls , glinting over her glass of beer , ‘ stop avoiding the issue , will you ? |
| 12 | At that moment Sally knocked over her glass of wine . |
| 13 | As Luch hurried gently about her many tasks , she often wondered how Marion would manage with just her bowl of soup from the castle . |
| 14 | Not her kind of author . |
| 15 | She described her H.N. experience as ‘ not her tot of rum ’ . |
| 16 | This was not her sort of party . |
| 17 | Then a bomb blast devastated the theatre and wiped away her smile of anticipation . |
| 18 | Perhaps that was the most disturbing thing about this whole affair , the fact that he had so easily taken away her freedom of choice . |
| 19 | His angry words brought her back to reality , but did nothing to take away her sense of grievance . |
| 20 | Blindly she moved forward , panic crashing now through every barrier she had managed , through her twenty precarious years , to erect against it , flooding her whole mind , sweeping away her sense of reason and reality , so that she could already feel the coarse fustian of prison clothing and workhouse clothing against her body as she ran , could feel her skin crawl from every one of prison 's basic indignities , her stomach heave with revulsion . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 22 | She might have renounced her family , but she had still her share of pride — in her lineage , in the family name . |
| 23 | She ate her apple pie , which was excellent , and finished off her glass of wine , only for Dr Neil to look at her quizzically and say , ‘ Cheese and biscuits , McAllister ? |
| 24 | Barbara Coleman made a little jump backwards , a shaking hand went to her lips but not fast enough to cut off her cry of fear . |
| 25 | Rune brushed aside her lack of enthusiasm with such purpose that she had no option but to fall into step beside him . |
| 26 | Then suddenly she heard the sound of someone coming , and she put aside her sadness of heart , to realise that Lubor , perhaps on the lookout for her , must have spotted her from a window somewhere . |
| 27 | Susan was tempted to remodel her dream image as ‘ Phyllis Dietrichsen ’ from Double Indemnity , flashing her jewelled anklet and casting off her used-up men like old cleanses , or ‘ Vivian Sternwood ’ from The Big Sleep , brushing aside her curtain of hair and trading innuendoes over cigarettes with Philip Marlowe . |
| 28 | But gradually her horror of water had extended to the bath and shower in her own home . |
| 29 | An evening in the company of William Bremner was hardly her idea of night-school . |
| 30 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |