Example sentences of "of her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 2 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
| 3 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 4 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 5 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
| 6 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 7 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 8 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 9 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 10 | Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley . |
| 11 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 12 | Fat chance , she thought dismally , the prospect of two days and three nights without seeing him yawning ahead of her like the Grand Canyon . |
| 13 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 14 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 15 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 16 | He 'd been conscious of her in the old days of course , although he kept quiet about that . |
| 17 | It 's not going to be as big as her first marriage , when 47,000 well-wishers crowded the streets around Westminster Abbey to catch a glimpse of her in the magnificent Glass Coach . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
| 19 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 20 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |