Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door . |
| 2 | Sabine bit her lower lip until she tasted blood . |
| 3 | Warbirds of Norway 's Vampire , former Swiss J-1146 , has gained nose-art in character with the odd nose her last operators gave her . |
| 4 | Suzie dragged her unruly locks to the nape of her neck and snapped a clip across the tangles , scowling at the dishevelled effect her best efforts always created . |
| 5 | As the eldest girl among the twenty-one children , Isabella was her grandmother 's chief assistant , and in this unusual establishment her informal education began . |
| 6 | Beneath her jolly headgear her tired eyes momentarily sparkled . |
| 7 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 8 | She 'd felt like a trapped animal back in the cottage , and like a trapped animal her only instinct had been to escape . |
| 9 | The previous year her chief secretary had travelled home on black ice and thick snow . |
| 10 | If she is a regular churchgoer her previous vicar , minister , priest or rabbi will probably have put her in touch with a place of worship near to your home , and whether you are churchgoers or not you should make every effort to enable her to remain active in church life and enjoy all the organisations connected with it , in which she will make friends . |
| 11 | How dared he question her integrity , the very fabric her entire being was built around ? |
| 12 | But in her lonely senility her eccentric belief had been unshakable , the world had become impossible without the closeness of God . |
| 13 | She had forgotten the dreadful price her own sisters had paid for that male greed and self-interest . |
| 14 | She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 15 | Alarm rose in response to the dark , angry glitter her defiant claim brought to his eyes , and as he began to move towards her , Maria also moved , whirling past him as he came round the desk . |
| 16 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |
| 17 | The only reason her own embarkation had been so hopelessly clumsy was because her limbs were all suddenly shaking like jellies . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid Guy 's not here right now , ’ Virginia began as evenly as she could , painfully conscious of the debauched image her tousled appearance must present . |
| 19 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 20 | During the presidential campaign her projected involvements have revolved around women and children 's affairs . |
| 21 | You ca n't refuse a condemned girl her last request , can you ? |
| 22 | When Anna May Reese took a new lover her estranged husband was seized with murderous jealousy . |
| 23 | The University commissioned a new piece of music by Irish composer Elaine Agnew for the first of these concerts , which not only gave a young composer her first opportunity to write for a full orchestra but also provided an affectionate tribute to the former Chancellor 's memory . |
| 24 | On the other hand her present emphasis may be retrospectively the harder because she was so emphatic in the Sixties when Burton ‘ crucified Sybil ’ by leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 25 | As realisation broke over her like a drenching wave her whole body sagged . |
| 26 | Mary of Guise had infinitely more ability and determination , but for the first twelve years of the minority she had no official role in government , and throughout the whole period her main interest lay in achieving a French marriage for her daughter , even if that meant doing little about the existence of Protestantism . |
| 27 | We 're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen , illustrated by Helen Oxenbury ( Walker Books , £9.95 ) Winner of the Smarties Award 1989 After one reading , Rosa gave this large format , handsome book her highest accolade ; she briskly wrote her name in the front and asked if she could take it to school ‘ to show Olga ’ , her favourite teacher . |