Example sentences of "of her [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What remained of her conscience ached a little as she drove home remembering that , if she cared to , she could make April love her , and that this was a dangerous , potentially harmful ability . |
| 2 | Yet when I coaxed Mala out of her cabin to have a look , she stared through the view-panel with her normal rosebud mouth compresses into a thin line . |
| 3 | It moves smoothly and pleasantly through the course of her dedicated career without any recognition of her gender constituting a difficulty . |
| 4 | Perhaps she even got Grandma thinking the same , not realizing that Grandma was a person who needed the near-replica of her childhood to make a background for her life ; and that although she gave , she also received . |
| 5 | He massaged the crook of her elbow to raise a vein and slipped the needle in . |
| 6 | Not only must she cope with Cherie 's distressing withdrawal symptoms , she also needs eyes in the back of her head to curb a two-year-old 's natural mischief . |
| 7 | She was n't heavy and although I 'm no weight-training freak , I lifted her until her backside was balanced on the tailboard and then it was just a matter of rolling her in to the well of the truck , the back of her head making a satisfying thud as she landed . |
| 8 | All seven of her faces wear a blank expression . |
| 9 | The main characters are brought together when Rachel breaks out of her inertia to start a campaign to get Haleemo 's other children into the country . |
| 10 | Helen used some of her earnings to hire a bathing machine and develop her swimming . |
| 11 | The Braun Independent heated up very quickly , but Sarah found it tricky to use the tong without the ends of her hair having a kink . |
| 12 | Her problems began when a chemical drum in the back of her van sprang a leak , and filled the van with fumes . |
| 13 | The last few months of her journal witness a severe crisis in her life when , having produced a scientific paper on lichen ( nowadays considered ahead of its time ) , her researches were dismissed in a high-handed and sexist way by the Director of Kew Gardens to whom she presented her work . |
| 14 | This painting is one of 6 Sandra is sending off as part of her application to become a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour . |
| 15 | She had been irritated by the cook 's refusal of her offer to make a simple white sauce , though Mrs Cranbrook was up to her eyes in work . |
| 16 | But her face was intelligent ; out of her eyes gazed a heart which acknowledged a wasted lifetime . |
| 17 | Sophie shook the collar of her blouse to make a little breeze , but did n't think of opening the window . |
| 18 | ‘ The bin men were just about to climb into their lorry when a woman came running out of her house carrying a black bin liner . |
| 19 | Along the line of her brow lay a seam of piercing pain . |
| 20 | Jenna looked up from her gloomy contemplation of her appearance to find a young man watching her from a racy-looking open-topped car . |
| 21 | With such an effective way of victualling her young , the mother is able to retain them within her until they are so big that their sheer size makes them a burden and the mechanics of getting them out of her body becomes a real problem . |
| 22 | Waking in his room at the week-ends , Sandra was there beside him , her head against his shoulder , the sun-bleached hair half-covering her ears ; the warm curve of her body shuddered a little when he stroked it , his fingers traced round the freckles on her shoulder , islands on an ocean of tanned skin . |
| 23 | The sister comes out of her office holding a small night case and a black garbage bag tied with string , bulging and misshapen like an over-stuffed cushion ; there is already a split down one side . |
| 24 | The Commissioner stressed right from the start that she is not an Ombudsman-it is not the task of her office to offer a conciliation or advisory service to help resolve disputes between a union and its members . |
| 25 | So , during 1992 , she and the midwives of her region ran a very effective campaign which resulted in nationwide changes in the contents of the packs . |
| 26 | She will use part of her winnings to buy a new house and a garden flat for her mother . |
| 27 | It appears significant that this unraced filly — who has been working well — is the sole survivor of five John Gosden entries in the fillies ' classic and none of her rivals has a similar entry . |
| 28 | She hesitated , then with the point of her shoe touched a clump of fungi that grew round the roots of a large oak tree , drawing back as one burst open . |
| 29 | A test taken within an hour of her death found a very high level of insulin in blood taken from Becky 's heart . |