Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of a blood trail from an emergency telephone was consistent with the 22-year-old pregnant housewife staunching her own blood , Dr Acland said . |
| 2 | Each inmate had her own locker and a screen for privacy . |
| 3 | At this Sarella raised her own eyebrows . |
| 4 | Just as she uses passive resistance in order to overcome her own passivity , so she uses her empty stomach to overcome her own emptiness . |
| 5 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 6 | Each girl drew her own picture in her own section of the paper . |
| 7 | ‘ That Simon had her all mixed up . |
| 8 | But the nodding baby , the beginnings of whimpers from Helen who had decided that she minded bitterly that her fairy doll had spent Christmas in a cardboard box , Mrs Chamberlin 's gallant attempts to fight her own fatigue , told her she must go home . |
| 9 | The odd simile suited her own peculiar mode of speech , so full of girls ' boarding-school slang and the coarse expressions which troubled Ludens . |
| 10 | ‘ I , unfortunately , did not , ’ she murmured , her wounded smile a brief spasm mocking her own gullibility . |
| 11 | Seconds later it was her turn as Travis 's large hand echoed her own movement , gliding silkily down the undulating length of her back , hip and thigh , sending frissons of pleasure dancing along her nerve-ends . |
| 12 | I could n't see why , because apparently the kid is looked after by a local nursemaid , who had taken it off that day to visit her own family . |
| 13 | She could not be to Pen as Minnie was to Miss Arabel since there was a mother in between but she had a great desire to see her former charge treat her as freely when he reached manhood . |
| 14 | Each woman brings her own particular gifts to whatever she does — which may or may not be those that are commonly labelled ‘ feminine ’ . |
| 15 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
| 16 | ‘ We both know our marriage was a disastrous mistake , ’ she said , making an enormous effort to keep her own tone crisp and unemotional . |
| 17 | The North Down athlete produced 47.54 metres to improve her own record by half-a-metre . |
| 18 | France still wanted EURATOM more than she wanted a common market , and in September 1956 caused a new crisis in the negotiations , with various demands to ease her own position in a six-power customs union . |
| 19 | Bob Lee , from the Staffordshire Ambulance service , received the cheque and helped one employee start her own charity effort . |
| 20 | Barbara Cartland is n't the only woman to write her own fortune — CATHERINE COOKSON is worth £24 million , SHIRLEY CONRAN £16 million , JACKIE COLLINS is richer than sister Joan with £15 million and ROSEMARY CONLEY has £14.8 million . |
| 21 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 22 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 23 | The current work at the Mappin demonstrates the refreshing versatility in which each exhibitor establishes her own position in relation to the traditionally sanctioned modernist frame of reference . |
| 24 | And naturally Elise has n't any money to pay her own way , Leith thought , but , since she did n't want to part bad friends with her mother , she managed to hold back . |
| 25 | It was like a smiling , mocking face , laughing at her useless attempts to raise her own passion . |
| 26 | Hilary Robarts 's sultry handsomeness emphasized her own very different look , an old-fashioned , carefully tended but unselfconscious prettiness which reminded him of photographs of the late thirties . |
| 27 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
| 28 | Turning to go back to her own house to oversee her own arrangements for departure , she realised how little good the summer had done Mrs Browning . |
| 29 | For Japan the Western withdrawal and the disunity of China seemed to present a golden opportunity to advance her own interests . |
| 30 | However , the steely look in his blue eyes told her such tactics would be ultimately pointless , and she sighed heavily . |