Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynn is a vivid example of how women are often attracted to men who express parts of themselves which have been buried or destroyed — in her case her sexual confidence . |
| 2 | Just the sight of him , his height and the strength she had gauged so intimately , and his darkness , emphasised by the light colours of his casual clothing , provoked the yearning , that molten clamouring throb of hidden flesh , with the anguished clenching of her heart its emotional counterpart . |
| 3 | She paused as if turning over in her mind her next words before giving them substance . |
| 4 | Morag stayed at the small , white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best . |
| 5 | Doctors are concerned about her condition which this morning was described as ‘ very poorly ’ . |
| 6 | Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way . |
| 7 | I 'd made her question her own heart . ’ |
| 8 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 9 | A women sat outside her hut cooking some grass seeds for her two teenage children , both of whom were painfully thin and too weak to stand , and told me her story : Her husband had been shot months ago , and when the food ran out in her village her only choice was to come to Kismayo where aid agency food was arriving . |
| 10 | When Rachel , Little Owl of the 1st Spalding Brownies got married , the Rainbows and Brownies went along to give her and her husband their best wishes . |
| 11 | She knew better than to ask her husband what this letter was about however , and awaited his reaction in the reserved , watchful way which she had found safest to adopt in her husband 's presence and which usually concealed more vehement feelings . |
| 12 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 13 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I want any , ’ she said and inside her skull her hoarse voice grated against the pain . |
| 15 | Martha sat down on a rough wood bench in the yard and pulled off one shoe to show her grandmother her sore toes . |
| 16 | To her fury her impassioned words seemed to amuse him . |
| 17 | She made her voice its happy forest . |
| 18 | Hannah Hauxwell 's somewhat late introduction to the benefits of modern civilization , such as water that arrived at the turn of a tap , central heating , shops just a few yards away , even a telephone ( the number is ex-directory or it would never stop ) , clearly created a revolution in her life Her financial situation also improved dramatically with a tidy amount left from the sale of Low Birk Hatt to invest , and substantial sums from the royalties of her best-selling book . |
| 19 | Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook . |
| 20 | She was going to live her life her own way . |
| 21 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 22 | The great Ewan MacColl wrote the hill walker 's anthem , The Manchester Rambler , as a tribute to those who took part in the Great Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and it is therefore particularly fitting that Fay Godwin should have chosen another of his poems to end her book Our Forbidden Land . |
| 23 | Following her death her second husband , the baseball player Joe DiMaggio , arranged for fresh roses to be delivered to her grave three times a week . |
| 24 | And there was Winifred , who had tried to teach her son her own form of passive resistance to Bill 's rage and had only , perhaps she now thought , exposed him to a homosexual religious maniac . |