Example sentences of "[noun pl] to her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film girl tells court of Minister 's regular trips to her luxury home |
| 2 | He seemed arrested by her laughter , she saw , as she watched his glance go from the merriment in her eyes to her laughing mouth . |
| 3 | Two ants were attached by their pincers to her left arm . |
| 4 | Thanks to her political views , the Communist Daily Worker enjoyed for several years the services of a perceptive ballet critic . |
| 5 | If Charles 's first memories of Diana on that fateful weekend are of ‘ a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old — full of fun ’ , then it was certainly no thanks to her elder sister . |
| 6 | Thanks to her capable care — and much to the surprise of the doctors — he did n't succumb until the age of seventy , despite his daily ‘ only bit a pleasure ’ , ten Woodbines and a box of Swans . |
| 7 | Thanks to her appealing appearance the Philadelphia audience gave her the benefit of the doubt and listened . |
| 8 | Thanks to her acquired confidence in what could be achieved in the hypnotic state , Sylvia readily agreed . |
| 9 | But , unlike the other students , she stayed fully sentient while her finger was in the socket thanks to her Friend-engineered connection . |
| 10 | In the end Diana , who had an epidural injection in the base of her spine , was able to give birth thanks to her own efforts , without resorting to forceps or an operation . |
| 11 | When she was alone , Emily allowed herself a smile of satisfaction , nothing could stop her now , she was on her way up and all thanks to her own ingenuity . |
| 12 | It 's likely her first words to her adoptive grandmother will be thank you . |
| 13 | He was giving words to her own struggle , but before she could feel too much empathy a light went on inside her . |
| 14 | And she was always turned out with the meticulous make-up and clothes of a Barbie doll , an arch exponent of power dressing with padded shoulders to her grey suit and a tight pencil skirt that drew attention to her long , shapely legs . |
| 15 | When the end came , Maggie gave a low , shaken moan and collapsed beneath him , her feelings so deep that she began to cry , soft , uncontrollable sobbing that brought his arms around her and his lips to her heated face . |
| 16 | During a career that started with junk TV through small film roles to her current stardom , Michelle also had to cope with the breakup of her marriage to Peter Horton , the star of American TV show Thirtysomething , which is now screened in Britain . |
| 17 | It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing . |
| 18 | Even more daunting is a flight of 5 steps to her front gate . |
| 19 | She leaned on a staff as tall as herself , and could not see the visitors to her fur-lined chamber , but her nearsense informed her . |
| 20 | Her eyes were black , wide as though with some sustained surprise , the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut . |
| 21 | Victim Minnie Osmenia , a member of a powerful Philippines family , underwent four hours of micro-surgery for three jagged wounds to her left cheek as a result of the slashing . |
| 22 | From her sensible shoes to her practical haircut , her appearance proclaims her membership of that generation of British women who survived the privations of wartime and went on to spend their lives in ungrumbling toil creating the now tarnished Jerusalem of the Welfare State . |
| 23 | He merely looked her up and down from her booted feet to her windblown hair , then returned his attention to the stove , and Hilary almost turned and went out again . |
| 24 | She was conducted up flights of stone stairs with wrought-iron balustrades to her huge room , whose walls were painted a bright dark blue — a colour which reminded her of a postcard of Van Gogh 's " Starry Night " , and even more of the colour behind the fleurs de lys on the banners in Olivier 's film of Henry V. Its powdery darkness amazed her : no English room was ever dark blue : maybe this was more like Reckitt 's blue ? |
| 25 | foolish but amiable young man courting Bella Wilfer , who transfers his affections to her younger sister Lavinia , to whom he eventually becomes engaged , after Bella goes to live with the Boffins . |
| 26 | She put nerveless fingertips to her hot cheeks . |
| 27 | Sometimes , Harriet wondered whether Edna , on her visits home , relayed such inadequacies to her own mother . |
| 28 | She had wanted to stay with her brother , but he had called her a child , he had referred to Tallis as the woman whom he loved , and Morthen had taken both statements to her young heart . |
| 29 | Jenny had a very poor topographical imagination and needed to apply herself with great concentration to the task of relating the main lines of street lights to her own knowledge of the town . |
| 30 | PRODUCER Lisa Bryer , 34 , has signed a deal with Island Pictures for the rights to her psycho-drama movie , Phone . |