Example sentences of "[noun pl] of her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until she won their trust their manners were deferential , identical to the old-fashioned manners of her own youth . |
| 2 | It was not an errand she would enjoy , because she knew the sorrow it would cause , but her specific task in this household was to be the eyes and ears of her dear companion . |
| 3 | She needed to live his life with him , if only through the eyes and ears of her dearest friend . |
| 4 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 5 | She imagined she could feel the short curly hairs of her silken bush standing on end , and knew her cunt lips would be hanging partially open as if in invitation . |
| 6 | His gently probing fingers touched the first dainty hairs of her bonny thatch , and crept through her undergrowth like a lizard through the forest . |
| 7 | As always , she ‘ saw ’ through the eyes of her faithful assistant ; but the final , unmistakable imprint of all her films was Kropotkin . |
| 8 | Blood drummed in her ears , blood gurgled like vomit in her throat , blood splashed in bright globules against the retinas of her closed eyes . |
| 9 | Hannah Hauxwell 's somewhat late introduction to the benefits of modern civilization , such as water that arrived at the turn of a tap , central heating , shops just a few yards away , even a telephone ( the number is ex-directory or it would never stop ) , clearly created a revolution in her life Her financial situation also improved dramatically with a tidy amount left from the sale of Low Birk Hatt to invest , and substantial sums from the royalties of her best-selling book . |
| 10 | It is interesting to study how Mrs Thatcher eventually came to dominate the Cabinet , bearing in mind that many Cabinet ministers in 1979 were not supporters of her economic strategy . |
| 11 | Some supporters of her National Opposition Coalition , known as U N O cheered dutifully , others booed her announcement that although she would take over as Minister of Defence , General Ortega was staying on . |
| 12 | From one end of the parcel emerged the living head and shoulders of her new baby . |
| 13 | Just then the girl dropped her cloak , and her long hair fell on to the shoulders of her red jacket . |
| 14 | Last night 's rich pickings followed hot on the heels of her big night in Brussels last Friday when she won four gold bars for victories in Olso , Zurich , Berlin and of course Brussels … now she sets her sights on tomorrow 's Princess Street Mile in Edinburgh where the winner receives a car . |
| 15 | Eleven books of her best-known work , Pilgrimage , were published between 1915 and 1938 ; the first collected edition of all thirteen volumes of this novel appeared posthumously in 1967 . |
| 16 | Franca was amazed at her sudden power to develop vivid visual images of her mental states , a power which she had never exercised before , and which she thought of , not without satisfaction , as being perhaps a symptom of incipient madness . |
| 17 | Stunned by the images of her own mind , all she could do was clench and unclench her fists , praying the numbing effect she had encouraged would disappear as quickly as Rune had implied . |
| 18 | For the work of Sherman this show may only confirm the suspicions already held by many that , with the kind of success she now enjoys after the Saatchi purchase of her notorious nude self-portrait , her intention is less than subversive and takes shrewd advantage of the fruits of sensationalism Saddest of all however is that , within the context of this show , the nightmarish images of her latest offerings succeed better at making the female viewer feel the full impact of the implied degradation . |
| 19 | Because of the big change in her life and all the different aspects of her new home and marriage , she did not have the opportunity to grieve her mother 's death . |
| 20 | ‘ Almost as decadent as the new Mrs Guy Sterne , ’ Guy drawled teasingly , ‘ whose boundless enthusiasm for creative design in her new role as director of Chester 's Mother and Child subsidiary is exceeded only by her boundless enthusiasm for the more physical aspects of her new role as the new Mrs Guy Sterne … ouch ! ’ |
| 21 | Some aspects of her early life are suggested in her pseudo-anonymous biography of her father ; otherwise , little is known . |
| 22 | Moreover , if Olwyn went to bed at an earlier time it would obviate the Jones ' need to reinforce aspects of her bad behaviour ( for example giving in to tantrums and providing positive attention for hitting ) . |
| 23 | fell like branches of her weeping willow . |
| 24 | Suddenly her heart ached for the sight of her native country , for the sounds and scents and the voices of her own people . |
| 25 | The couple split up after Farrow saw nude pictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn , 21 , taken by Allen . |
| 26 | A LOVESICK Frenchwoman plastered a town with pictures of her English sweetheart only to discover he was married . |
| 27 | Although this is not in itself to be dismissed as a tactic , it has diminished the complexity of Kahlo 's achievement as a specifically Mexican painter , operating within the particularities of her historical moment . |
| 28 | She put together slowly the bricks of her new self . |
| 29 | She was a large woman , flushed with the exertion of constantly having to answer the door , and she still showed in her black hair , grey eyes and lovely skin , traces of her Irish forebears . |
| 30 | Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star . |