Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynn is a vivid example of how women are often attracted to men who express parts of themselves which have been buried or destroyed — in her case her sexual confidence . |
| 2 | She paused as if turning over in her mind her next words before giving them substance . |
| 3 | Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll … |
| 4 | She did not give their talk her whole attention . |
| 5 | Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way . |
| 6 | I 'd made her question her own heart . ’ |
| 7 | A women sat outside her hut cooking some grass seeds for her two teenage children , both of whom were painfully thin and too weak to stand , and told me her story : Her husband had been shot months ago , and when the food ran out in her village her only choice was to come to Kismayo where aid agency food was arriving . |
| 8 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I want any , ’ she said and inside her skull her hoarse voice grated against the pain . |
| 10 | Martha sat down on a rough wood bench in the yard and pulled off one shoe to show her grandmother her sore toes . |
| 11 | To her fury her impassioned words seemed to amuse him . |
| 12 | ‘ I want , I want , ’ said Ellen , pinning up above their bed her favourite William Blake print . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook . |
| 15 | She was going to live her life her own way . |
| 16 | Following her death her second husband , the baseball player Joe DiMaggio , arranged for fresh roses to be delivered to her grave three times a week . |
| 17 | And there was Winifred , who had tried to teach her son her own form of passive resistance to Bill 's rage and had only , perhaps she now thought , exposed him to a homosexual religious maniac . |
| 18 | Was that another of Sandra 's productions , and did she want her husband B. lost and gone forever , and was his existence her Current Liability ? |
| 19 | The Hutchinsons were involved in the great Antinomian controversy by which the infant colony was riven in 1636–8 , Richard 's sister-in-law being the feminist leader Anne Hutchinson ( née Marbury , q.v. ) , and his brother-in-law her closest ally , the Revd John Wheelwright . |
| 20 | In your custody her second babe , Alexander , Duke of Ross , died ! ’ |