Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 2 | More splendid than her antique fan of ombré ostrich plumes or her green-black coq feather boa , more splendid even than the towering aigrette á la Pougy which she wore sometimes to go with the diamond . |
| 3 | Though almost as crowded as her previous transport , the water-bus was a great deal more pleasant . |
| 4 | Gillian Barge is splendid as Mrs Higgins — as splendid as her Burne-Jonesy gowns and her frizzy Pre-Raphaelite hair . |
| 5 | Her face was as white as her long dress , and her dark hair lay over her shoulders . |
| 6 | Rachel sat there , staring after them , her face white as her own taxi pulled away . |
| 7 | A kind woman , she had had three children of her own and a heart as large as her ample body . |
| 8 | Folly was n't sure if her growing feeling of euphoria was due to Luke 's excitement about the Rose Bowl 's possibilities — or the commitment to the future of their relationship that his willingness to help her implied . |
| 9 | Despite her love of exercise , her health had been poor since her early adulthood and she was bedridden for many years . |
| 10 | Why did he remain voiceless while her high-pitched utterances spat themselves about ? |
| 11 | His widow married as her third husband the royal physician , Sir John Baber [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | As Mrs Shand Kydd spent most of the year in Scotland it was as good as her own place . |
| 13 | Lorraine Herbert , of Flaxton , Yorkshire , was intrigued when her young daughter Joanne started talking about her friend , Dohti . |
| 14 | Bunny was riding a smaller Younger animal , as black as her own hair , and one who evidently found the scent of the morning too exhilarating . |
| 15 | From the pocket of her noisy plastic mac she produced a key as long as her own forearm , its turning piece in the shape of a Latin cross . |
| 16 | Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love . |
| 17 | Perhaps the suffocating conventions of the Shermans ' Queen Anne plantation house would not have been forced on an unknowing seventeen-year-old if her ailing mother had not been so shamed by their straitened conditions in a rented house on the borders of the Creole quarter of New Orleans . |
| 18 | But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move . |
| 19 | As void and null as her feeble attempts to find out what he did n't want to tell her the night of the paella . |
| 20 | As the long , cold winter merged into spring she wondered if America , or any place on earth , could be as beautiful as her native moors . |
| 21 | However , the services of a young English professional cook , whose aristocratic connections were almost as important as her culinary skills , rescued her . |
| 22 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |
| 23 | Her misery as extreme as her former delight , she lay perfectly still , trying to hold back the tears that threatened . |
| 24 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , there 's no point in it being so beautiful if you ca n't ever go out in it because it 's raining , ’ said Betty , revealing a childish streak in her character which Lydia found rather less appealing than her habitual bossiness . |
| 26 | After her mother died in a car crash she was sent to live with an aunt , who was barely more welcoming than her own parents had been . |
| 27 | And just how was she supposed to stay aloof when her wayward body kept ignoring the commands of her brain ? |
| 28 | Julius 's hands slid underneath her T-shirt , his palms as hot as her own skin . |
| 29 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 30 | It 's not going to be as big as her first marriage , when 47,000 well-wishers crowded the streets around Westminster Abbey to catch a glimpse of her in the magnificent Glass Coach . |