Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clearly to France 's advantage to advance her south-eastern frontier by the acquisition of Savoy and Nice , while the building of railways in the region would give her a strong economic and strategic position in northern and central Italy . |
| 2 | Lyric Fantasy will now stick to sprinting with Royal Ascot 's King 's Stand Stakes her next target . |
| 3 | PRINCESS Di 's decision to dump her German Mercedes backfired yesterday . |
| 4 | A stable and egalitarian Asian military and economic alliance was bound to founder on Japan 's inability to submerge her own interests for the benefit of Asia as a whole . |
| 5 | And Sara 's story explained her own ambivalent behaviour … |
| 6 | Rosa 's look cut her short , and turning stoutly to the children , with quite uncharacteristic toughness towards her mother , she demanded , ‘ What 's it like ? ’ |
| 7 | Yesterday 's loss hit her hard and one friend said : ‘ It 's not one that a good night 's sleep will make her forget . |
| 8 | Turning up at Puddephat 's college to make her own inquiries was a much more daunting prospect than her leisurely visit to the Herald library . |
| 9 | The man 's gaze raked her clear complexion and pale gold hair , then his mouth twisted slightly as he drawled in a sardonic tone , ‘ What 's the matter , Cornflower ? |
| 10 | Nicola 's laugh cut her short . |
| 11 | Agonising about the Gold Standard decision , he wrote to his Controller of Finance at the Treasury , Sir Otto Niemayer : So one might ask whether by maintaining high interest rates to support the value of the pound against the Deutschmark , the British people were not being required to make untold sacrifices to match German interest rates , whose levels were in part at least caused by that country 's need to rebuild her eastern provinces . |
| 12 | Sea Bee Air 's ZK-DFC made her last flight ( above ) on August 26 from Ardmore to Mechanics Bay on the Auckland waterfront for transfer to a ship and the journey to Colorado . |
| 13 | How dare you speak to your mother like that ? ’ she jabbed repeatedly until the sight of blood seeping through Constance 's blouse stopped her short . |
| 14 | The Heilbron Advisory Group confirmed these fears and maintained that ‘ disclosure of a rape victim 's name caused her great distress and also tended to discourage women from reporting alleged rape ’ . |
| 15 | The Canadian country rock star believes her dad 's departure made her tougher . |
| 16 | A young farmer 's wife having her first batch of butter er rejected . |
| 17 | As he ducked through the door Leonora stared at him in astonishment , then stuck out her tongue irreverently as she slid out of bed , refusing to let Penry 's snub spoil her new well-being . |
| 18 | The various relations did n't have time to help the bride because they had to get themselves ready , and when Ellie knocked on Terry 's door to offer her own help she found the bride-to-be face down on the bed in floods of tears . |
| 19 | But the gaps in Mrs Thatcher 's address reflected her own standing instruction to Cabinet colleagues : to ‘ calm down ’ the Government 's confrontational image . |
| 20 | ‘ So , ’ Luke 's voice overrode her own , ‘ I 'm sure I need n't tell you that the evening has a better chance of success with four of us rather than three . ’ |
| 21 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 22 | The Eldest Son had his own areesh , his own palm-frond house where his bride sat buried in her shyness while the Sheikha 's daughter did her best to make her smile . |
| 23 | She could make all the speeches she would like Tommaso to make , a hundred times over , and yet his awkwardness under her mother 's severity filled her full of pity too , and her chivalrous love returned to warm her and fortify her , suturing the cut that had opened in her earlier at his muteness the night before . |
| 24 | Mrs Hodgson 's letter wins her three tools from Sandvik : Leisure Secateurs , Pruning Saw and Garden Knife , worth £25 |
| 25 | Let , let mummy , mummy 's birthday let her open it |
| 26 | Hall 's most obvious technical reflex was the use of Lilian 's viewpoint to establish her childish fear of our everyday : a tree , a plane , traffic . |
| 27 | She has observed that not everyone 's conversation follows her own style . |
| 28 | I read Jemima Harrison 's feature abut her horrific experience at the hands of a brutal rapist with tears in my eyes . |
| 29 | Luxemburg 's internationalism made her insensitive to the possibility of German Social Democratic oppression — or at least , oppression by neglect or indifference — of Prussia 's Poles . |
| 30 | Erm does er Martin 's mother own her own home ? |