Example sentences of "her [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilton warns her not to skimp these obligatory verbal prayers in her enthusiasm for the new contemplation . |
| 2 | Her enthusiasm for the social programme is astonishing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some similar process in Ursula presumably explained her willingness for the first time to discuss arrangements for the funeral , which they agreed should be held as soon as possible . |
| 5 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 7 | She had recently changed her mind and in a moving and closely argued speech declared her support for the combined system . |
| 8 | Trish voiced her support for the vice-presidential campaign of Gerlandine Ferraro . |
| 9 | Putting aside his choice of partner , the lady who publicly declared her support for the barbaric practice of ‘ necklacing ’ those who step out of line , there is his friendship with Col Gaddafi , who is said to have paid the bill for the ANC leader 's recent tour of North Africa , as well as contributing $135,000 to Mrs Mandela 's defence . |
| 10 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 11 | Andrew Jean , her lieutenant for the past two years , was a few yards away , skin in shreds , orange beehive hairdo picked to pieces . |
| 12 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
| 13 | Belinda Jones , ’ the owner of the name said simply , and waited while Dr Russell 's sister seemed to fully take in her presence for the first time . |
| 14 | A T E , A T R at the university and just , the block , the side of the university , she had her apartment for a little time . |
| 15 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 16 | She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes . |
| 17 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 18 | FREED prisoner Karl Maxwell-Smith flew home to Britain from Thailand yesterday — and met his granddaughter and her mum for the first time . |
| 19 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 20 | Now I 'll show them , she thought , lifting her stick for a flawless offside drive . |
| 21 | She had made no secret of her admiration for the mysterious Miguelito . |
| 22 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 23 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 24 | Paige racked her mind for a suitable excuse . |
| 25 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 26 | For the rest of her stay on the island , she did n't let the ragged emotions of that near-miss encounter with Guy trouble her mind for a single waking minute . |
| 27 | She gave Eva plenty of scope to prepare her mind for the whole matter of the interpretation of the gospel in Africa , and how to make the good news relevant in a non-Christian environment . |
| 28 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 29 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 30 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |