Example sentences of "her [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 32 | She found she was straining her ears for the musical clang of the town church bells . |
| 33 | Seeing his eyes move away from her mouth for the first time since the whole affair had begun , she shook her shoulders so that her full , rounded gourds trembled like jelly . |
| 34 | One must pay tribute to her dedication , and the gratitude of all connected with the Club , past , present and future is her due for the patient hours she has obviously spent in researching club records , the Henley Standard and personal reminiscences of many people who have been associated with the Club 's story . |
| 35 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 36 | Mrs Beveridge cared for Leanne 's two children in her home for the first 24 hours of the siege . |
| 37 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 38 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 39 | It was all a total and welcome contrast to San Francisco , her home for the past nine years . |
| 40 | A tall ship which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line , has bid farewell to the docks which have been her home for the past ten years . |
| 41 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 42 | Thomas Carlyle had suggested to Elizabeth Gaskell that she should ‘ use her pen for the public good ’ and this both husband and wife tried to do in their way . |
| 43 | The goddess of the river left her pillow for the great Prince of Wei . |
| 44 | Her work for the early suffrage campaigns also began in the mid-1870s , when she lectured widely for the cause in London , Manchester , Birmingham , and elsewhere . |
| 45 | The Duchess of York says her work for the Motor Neurone Disease Association saved her sanity after she was pictured topless on holiday with financial advisor John Bryan . |
| 46 | She 'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half . |
| 47 | That road leads inexorably to her work for the sick , the dying and the distressed . |
| 48 | Madeleine was awarded for her many hours spent with the elderly , helping with cooking , shopping or driving , as well as her work for the social services . |
| 49 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
| 50 | Alone , with most of the lights out and the cleaning ladies dotting about in the corridors , she tidied the papers on her desk for the fiftieth time . |
| 51 | ‘ And , Herr Busacher , I think something must be done about her costumes for the other productions . |
| 52 | Her appointments for the following week could , at a pinch , be postponed . |
| 53 | Her eye for the natural scene is revealed for the first time in her ‘ Alfoxden Journal ’ ( 1798 ) , the first fruit of the creative partnership between brother and sister which is celebrated at the climax of Wordsworth 's ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ . |
| 54 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
| 55 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
| 56 | In truth she had done remarkably well staying out of her clutches for the past three days , but then , she reflected ruefully , Adam had kept his promise , staying practically glued to her side . |
| 57 | Thanks also to Lynn Inglis and her team for the many newsletters they produced to such a high standard . |
| 58 | On her return she was promptly plunged back into teaching by Caroline Little , and at present she is working as Caroline 's assistant in her Classes for the Elderly . |
| 59 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 60 | Scottish Television 's Controller of Drama , Robert Love praised her for her bravery and praised her husband for the tremendous support he had given her . |