Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] her [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her appetite for life , boundless energy and numerous gifts and graces made her an all-round person . |
| 2 | As Mayor Perry 's encouragement demonstrated , Fulani 's status as an African-American woman and the utter absence of a consistent progressive agenda among this year 's leading Democratic presidential candidates make her a tempting protest vote in some decidedly mainstream quarters . |
| 3 | ‘ Is that right ? ’ he asked , one eyebrow lifted , the intense blue of those eyes asking her a different question entirely . |
| 4 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
| 5 | His words gave her a slight shock as they sent tingles of pleasure through her , but she knew she must not allow them to go to her head , so she pushed them aside as she uttered a light laugh and said , ‘ Me — an angel ? |
| 6 | Passers-by gave her a wide berth . |
| 7 | Piers gave her a long , cool look and she turned away . |
| 8 | Piers gave her a cursory glance , and the blood rushed to her hairline . |
| 9 | Piers shot her a puzzled look . |
| 10 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 11 | A light interior in combination with pastel colours gives her a warm , mediterranean atmosphere . |
| 12 | The panic attacks gave her the perfect excuse , as no blame could possibly be attributed to her . |
| 13 | Du Maurier 's atmospheric and often sinister novels and stories made her a worldwide bestseller , while she herself remained reclusive and deeply private . |
| 14 | Two window-cleaners threw her a cheerful obscenity , but she took no notice . |
| 15 | She formed a instinctive rapport with many patients , her efforts giving her a real sense of achievement . |
| 16 | Her owner 's full width cabin , plus four equal guest cabins give her a unique and pleasing layout . |
| 17 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 18 | Once she had been attractive , with a good figure : now she was painfully thin and her sharp features gave her a pinched look . |
| 19 | She came out into the starlit night , and beckoned one of the battered taxis to take her the short distance to the Monte Samana complex . |
| 20 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 21 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 22 | Sonia clocked 8.38.12 in the ‘ 3,000 ’ and collected 30,000 dollars and her second place to Lyudov Kremlyova in the 1,500 metres landed her a further 20,000 dollars . |
| 23 | Her eyes , still a startling blue , were now heavily made up , with black liner and white eye shadow , the false eyelashes giving her a startled doe look . |
| 24 | Jonas gave her an old-fashioned look . |
| 25 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 26 | Family connections gave her an inside view of Oxford 's local government , and hers is the best account of it in all the surveys . |
| 27 | Her black suede-look high-heels put her a good three inches taller than me and a grey checked suit and crisp white shirt offset with a thin red bow tie , and the fake leather document wallet she clutched , gave her a professional air . |
| 28 | From slang to puns to points of conflict , the end result is something like homeboy fashion meets voodoo charm and , back in ‘ 88 , the LA Times gave her a fitting nickname , ‘ East LA 's Ambassador Of Culture ’ . |
| 29 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 30 | Rosita was a bit old but she kept her body in good condition and the men liked her the best . |