Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her skin was a pale olive colour but absolutely clear and her magnificent eyes gave her face all the definition it needed . |
| 2 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 3 | Sometimes she 'd yelp and try to run away with her back hunched and her bushy tail sweeping the ground between her legs . |
| 4 | Her uniform shirt was crisp and her red hair had been tied back and she had a hint of an overbite . |
| 5 | The high , family cheek-bones stuck up gaunt and stark and her narrow shoulders jutted through the fabric of her sweater like bony wings . |
| 6 | The old money-lender with her ‘ Jewish ’ interest rates is to be murdered because her life is worthless and her hoarded wealth can be put to good use ; when the unimportant deed is done the doer will launch himself into something that really matters , a large-scale philanthropic exercise . |
| 7 | Her nature was most malevolent and her cursed offspring brought chaos and hardship to the world ; they included the CHIMERA , the SPHINX , the GORGONS , the hell-hound CERBERUS and the hundred-headed dragon of the HESPERIDES . |
| 8 | Appearances were deceptive and her own mother looked handsome and smart and had what people called a very sweet expression . |
| 9 | It is questionable that she believed women to be intellectually deficient and her only interest in masculinity in ‘ The Zone of Hate ’ is negative but women for her are symbolically the embodiment of love . |
| 10 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
| 11 | The Celtic fields ; Iron Age and Roman farms , all still detectable from the air ; the Dark Age village along the river bank with its ghostly , ghastly cemetery on the hill where a woman was buried alive and her skeletal fingers dug into the rough chalk sides of her grave ; nearby Winchester , the old Saxon capital ; the warpath at the top of my lane ; the mill I live in , founded in the days of Alfred 's great grandson , and reinforcements for the Conqueror 's victorious army trotting past the site of our bus shelter . |
| 12 | Why did her mouth go dry and her treacherous heart start pounding away inside her chest like war drums in the jungle ? |
| 13 | Her hair was dishevelled and her green eyes full of sleep . |
| 14 | Her eyes seemed too bold , her shorts too tight and her sun-reddened limbs too large . |
| 15 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 16 | Her hands , with the nails cut very short , were ringless and her only ornament was a necklace of large wooden beads strung on a silver chain . |
| 17 | Ra … fine and her Female Troupe of Performing … ’ |
| 18 | As it was , her flamboyance struck people as unbecoming and her apparent phlegm as not very lovable . |
| 19 | Theodora recounted to Laura the phone call she had had from Gilbert Racy and her own finding of the wedding ring in the Dersingham chapel of St Benet Oldfield . |
| 20 | Alison was wearing her dress of feathery blue cotton , bound in at the waist , her red hair was tousled , her freckled face not darkened , illuminated rather , by the sun , her pale skin delicately , milkily , opaque and her unpainted lips the faintest purest pink . |
| 21 | She is weak and ill but her first prayer is not for herself but for her unborn child who is dedicated to Christ 's service . |
| 22 | Her graceful swing was highly effective and her short game was deadly . |
| 23 | The handshake with which she had greeted him had been cool and firm and her brief smile was surprisingly attractive . |
| 24 | It was getting late and her youngest child , Tudor , who had accompanied her to the funeral , and was now waiting for her in the local hotel , would be growing anxious . |
| 25 | For most of the evening she was tired and irritable and her ensuing behaviour caused considerable disruption to family life . |
| 26 | Her features had not softened with the passing of almost three years ; if anything her face was more chiselled and her blue eyes harder . |
| 27 | At the mention of this word , Miss Trunchbull 's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog 's . |
| 28 | Tess 's cheeks were pink and her long hair was wet . |
| 29 | Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else . |
| 30 | Jo 's hair is naturally wavy and her true colour is dark blonde . |