Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air Force assigned 42–108777 to the Santa Maria Air Base where her two-seat capability was put to good use . |
| 2 | Even though she had left Stornoway when she was just 14 , she never lost her love for her birthplace or her sweet West Highland accent . |
| 3 | Blade Star is famous for her enormous breasts which she displayed while stripping , her affair with the Governor of Tennessee or her enormous feet ? |
| 4 | Your sick parent must be mentally fit to make this decision of her own free will , and it does not rob her of the right to make her own decisions as to the spending of her money or her free access to it . |
| 5 | She was not gracious to those whose arguments she rejected , whether they came from the opposition or her own party , as Aneurin Bevan [ q.v. ] and Michael Foot were both , at different times , to discover . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She would not think of her dry mouth or her empty stomach , or the clammy chill of the dungeon that had seeped into every bone in her body . |
| 8 | Robyn felt herself growing warm with resentment of his rudeness , mingled with the consciousness that her own conduct had not been entirely blameless . |
| 9 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 10 | She feels her Australian temperament has left her with fewer inhibitions than her European counterparts . |
| 11 | She had made up her mind that her delayed birthday present to her daughter was to be a proper , shop-bought frock . |
| 12 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 13 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 14 | His tongue parted her lips sensuously and then he drew so hard on her mouth that her last vestige of hope disappeared . |
| 15 | But since it was published she and Rushdie have split , amid all too public accusations from Ms Wiggins that her former husband was crazed with vanity and insincere about his ‘ conversion ’ to Islam . |
| 16 | She only realised then that she was sitting behind the wheel and her flushed face flushed even further as she moved across with great difficulty . |
| 17 | Her father , Paul Phipps , was an architect , also of American parentage , who influenced his daughter 's love of music and the arts and her abiding faith in the Church of Christian Science . |
| 18 | Then she thought of Miss Clinton , and of her daddy and his white face as he ran to the car to chase Miss Clinton — and of poor Aunt Nellie and her scared eyes when she realised what she 'd done . |
| 19 | Thus , Kurt got away with receiving stolen goods to the value of £3 10s by pleading an unselfish motivation to help his girlfriend and her three-month-old baby , while Nissi , whose bearing ‘ was very humble and apologetic ’ , was discharged after being caught red-handed taking cigarettes from a bombed-out tobacconist 's . |
| 20 | Another soldier pulled her away by her legs and her long hair left blood along the floor . |
| 21 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 22 | They could be at Buck House or , even worse , at Balmoral but she wanted to take the kids and her bald boyfriend to St Tropez . |
| 23 | Indeed , it emerged that he had been convicted of killing the child of a former girlfriend and had assaulted the defendant and her 3-year-old daughter . |
| 24 | The historians who have taken this line have identified Eleanor and her eldest daughter , Marie , Countess of Champagne ( 1140–98 ) , as the outstanding patrons of this dangerous movement . |
| 25 | With her long , tangled hair , her wild eyes and her protective stance , Emmie looked like a heroine in a Victorian engraving . |
| 26 | His lips began to gather her tears , moving over her eyes and her soft cheeks . |
| 27 | She longed to give in to the desire in his eyes and her own body 's urging . |
| 28 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 29 | In the middle house were Mrs. Cotton and her middle-aged son Fred who was , to use a Wiltshire expression , ‘ a bit light in the top storey . ’ |
| 30 | She has her own home in Mossley Hill and her 20-year-old son Neil calls around to visit her regularly . |