Example sentences of "her [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He deposited her case at the front door then strode back to his car , and she watched him go with hatred , her eyes moving over his powerful body , so lean , so tall , so impeccably dressed . |
2 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
3 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
4 | Shelley felt a tug at her heart at the sudden attraction of him , the perfect body and the face that looked so much more natural and attractive out here in the warm southern wind . |
5 | And even if it was n't too personal , did she really want him to know that some wee devil of tenderness pulled at her heart at the grey lines of weariness etched into his face ? |
6 | Making her debut at the Royal National Theatre in February , Frances Barber stars as a hotel manageress in Richard Eyre 's revival of the Tennessee Williams classic , The Night Of The Iguana . |
7 | DEBORAH Warner , who stunned us with her Titus Andronicus and Electra , makes her debut at the National directing Brecht 's The Good Person of Sichuan in the Olivier . |
8 | Blanche found the gesture patronising , symbolising the way she was treated by many of her superiors at the Metropolitan Police or creatures from the male world of spies . |
9 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
10 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
11 | Mrs Chalker , who lost her seat at the general election , faced giving up her job as Minister of the Overseas Development Administration and Britain 's leading representative at the European Bank , leaving a gap in the British team but will continue in her post from the House of Lords . |
12 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
13 | The skirt did not reach her calves at the ideal point for flattery . |
14 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
15 | ‘ She took her insulin at the right time , and ate properly ? ’ |
16 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
17 | The moves follow a separate case involving a 14-year-old girl who will today defend her right to ‘ divorce ’ her parents at the High Court . |
18 | Arriving on her broomstick at the prison-like school gates , Mildred peered through the railings into the misty playground . |
19 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
20 | Her jaw and cheekbone were broken , and her room at The Green residential home in Redruth , Cornwall , was splattered with blood . |
21 | Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes . |
22 | ‘ It having been stated to Samuel Whitbread Esq. , and to me … that Mary Flint , now in the Bedford Infirmary , is in danger of death in consequence of the wounds and injuries which she received from you , we intend to take her examination at the said Infirmary on Tuesday 8th October inst. at 1 o'clock of the afternoon of which I give you this notice that you may if you think proper be present . ’ |
23 | Lips compressed into a thin line of tension , she strode along the corridor and into her office , wrinkling her nose at the musty smell of stale air . |
24 | The worst bit was to come , when the steamer rolled over and took in water over her bulwarks at one side , then rolled straight over and took in water over her bulwarks at the other side . |
25 | Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin , leaving her standing at the open door . |
26 | Away from the defence debate Dr Mowlam also yesterday spoke of her despair at the growing homeless problem in her constituency . |
27 | She nodded her head at the cardiac monitor screen over against the far wall . |
28 | Red lights seemed to explode inside her head at the outrageous arrogance of his words . |
29 | They grasped hands and pumped up and down , and Mary Rose picked her way through the muddy forecourt and approached , her smile at the ready . |
30 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |