Example sentences of "[vb past] of her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOP model Imam , above , weeps as US senators and reporters in Washington watch a documentary she made of her hunger-torn homeland , Somalia . |
| 2 | The bedroom smelled of her musky perfume ; on the floor by the bed was her diary . |
| 3 | In it , she told of her two years ' hiding from the Nazis in a secret room in her father 's Amsterdam warehouse . |
| 4 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 5 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 6 | After the hearing Elizabeth Lamplugh told of her own ordeal . |
| 7 | In her memoirs , A Vulnerable Game ( 1989 ) — which contained no hands — Markus also told of her 13-year romance with Harold Lever ( now Lord Lever ) , a minister in the Wilson Government . |
| 8 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 9 | Madonna openly boasted of her ten year plan , now Kylie was drawing up hers . |
| 10 | And Mrs Tuckett had shrieked with laughter because she probably was the sort of woman who laughed loudly in pubs , but would never intentionally hurt anyone , and who would be cut to the marrow when she heard of her only son 's death . |
| 11 | Even his wife was surprised when she heard of her new guest in a telephone call from the airport . |
| 12 | But it was all the proof she needed of her own vulnerability where he was concerned . |
| 13 | And she thought of her tiny incursion into that life . |
| 14 | She thought of her warm bed , and began to close the window . |
| 15 | Sometimes she thought of her first husband and wondered briefly whether gross infidelity was really sufficient cause for divorce and whether faithless men were not perhaps — overall — more amusing than the other sort . |
| 16 | She nodded again , all thought of her overdue money forgotten in her excitement . |
| 17 | Then she thought of her original intention to take a taxi home . |
| 18 | He had fully intended to tell her exactly what he thought of her disgraceful conduct , for he had no doubt at all that what had been done had been done deliberately . |
| 19 | Then , perhaps with some thought of her own Christmas to be spent partly with the Queen at Sandringham she added : ‘ The lonely , the confused and the simply unloved , who need your help more than ever . ’ |
| 20 | As she limped into the farmhouse behind Seb , Carrie thought of her own words . |
| 21 | She thought of her own son amongst the crowd today . |
| 22 | He thought of her previous radiance , the eagerness with which she had made plans to visit the Pump Room , potter round antique shops , drive out to Savernake Forest and Cheddar Gorge . |
| 23 | When she thought of her old friend , she felt ashamed . |
| 24 | Ethel Topp told an inquest in Middlesbrough , Cleveland , that the last she saw of her 72-year-old husband Edmund was when he went out to ‘ clear his head ’ on December 14 last year . |
| 25 | Hopefully it would be the last she saw of her lesbian lover . |
| 26 | ‘ She not only knew of her big hits , but also about lots of other numbers on her various albums . |
| 27 | She felt suddenly sickened , reminded of her real motive for taking this job with Luke . |
| 28 | THE ORPHAN smuggled out of war-torn Bosnia by TV newsman Michael Nicholson spoke of her first days at a British school yesterday and declared : ‘ It is good . ’ |
| 29 | His mother always spoke of her new husband as Mr Morgan . |
| 30 | Enraged that he should take it on himself to tell her the state of her own business , and bristling at the manner in which he spoke of her precious son , Esther said sharply , ‘ Whatever is or is not in the coffers is nothing whatsoever to do with you ! |