Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Jane Pargeter sniffed and prodded with her toe at an imaginary stain in the carpet .
2 Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength .
3 The appointment ended three weeks of political uncertainty during which Sheikh Hasina Wajed , leader of the second-largest party , the Awami League , challenged Begum Zia to demonstrate her majority at the first session of the newly elected Jatiya Sangsad ( National Assembly ) , scheduled for April 5 .
4 Ms Hoey , who strengthened her majority at the last general election in Vauxhall , which she first won at a by-election , has also caused a stir over Northern Ireland policy .
5 The occasion was a documentary film I was making on the life of Airey Neave , the MP who had masterminded her election to the Tory leadership and , as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , been killed by an IRA car bomb when leaving the Palace of Westminster .
6 Her election by the Left Alliance 's executive committee was aimed at reversing the decline in electoral support for the 10-party alliance evidenced in the general election of April 1990 [ see p. 37388 ] .
7 Hilton warns her not to skimp these obligatory verbal prayers in her enthusiasm for the new contemplation .
8 Her enthusiasm for the social programme is astonishing .
9 And she weighed Zuleika 's words , and the shadow-voices , against her own uncertain judgement , and put her boot-toe on the next step up .
10 She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure .
11 Evelyn was carrying her case to a waiting taxi .
12 Today Michelle Howard took her case to the High Court , where she hopes to prove that Wessex Health Authority was liable .
13 Alice shut her case with a snap and stood up , a little flushed , eyes very full and shining .
14 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 .
15 With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute .
16 The employee then puts his or her case in a similar manner .
17 Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court .
18 Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape .
19 Rory led the way to the disco floor , all too aware of the speculative glances slid in her direction from the other dancers , yet aware too of a peculiar little thrill of pride as she caught the envious looks in the eyes of the other women .
20 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 .
21 Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation .
22 She sat up and tugged her shirt over the hopeless tangle of her hair .
23 Her khaki tie was tucked into her shirt between the protruding roundness of her shapely breasts , and her freckled arms were bare to the neatly rolled-up shirt sleeves .
24 Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ?
25 As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary .
26 The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty .
27 Lissa adjusted her foothold on the sloping riverbank and stared crossly at the cabin cruiser moored on the gently rippling water .
28 After a while , sitting in the car , we saw her stand for a few minutes first on one of the Howes , then on another , still and with arms raised .
29 On their way to the station she would not throw her coin into the Trevi Fountain .
30 ‘ Come here , my child , ’ said her mama gently , seeing her struggle with the tiny miniature pearls .
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