Example sentences of "her [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So great was her disappointment that all life seemed to drain from her . |
| 2 | She stared into fitzAlan 's hard , relentless eyes , and behind her fear that tiny flicker of resentment flared into sudden blazing life with the force of a rage as hot as his was cold . |
| 3 | It had occurred to Cecilia as soon as the words were out of her mouth that five minutes to twelve , which was the time when she had seen Jasper , was rather early for a lunch hour to begin . |
| 4 | In this way , all the shops reflect Roddick 's concern for the environment and her insistence that private wealth should be used for public good . |
| 5 | Three of the studies in which she has been involved — that described here , a follow-up of normal young black men , and a follow-up of Vietnam veterans — have supported her contention that deviant behaviour of various types in childhood or adolescence forms a syndrome which tends to continue in about half the cases to adulthood . |
| 6 | Her contention that this event was a result of a twofold plot of the Duc d'Orléans and the Illuminati , organized from Germany , was heavily criticized by several reviewers . |
| 7 | But evidently her appearance that first evening had constituted a rule rather than an exception . |
| 8 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 9 | Because of her sympathy with the child 's point of view , and her belief that young children are frequently underestimated , Donaldson is sometimes associated with those educationalists who are opposed to formal education and who maintain that young children will learn all they need to know in informal contexts outside of school . |
| 10 | But her belief that all women , regardless of wealth , should be offered clothes that were artistic and beautiful , not brash , sexually offensive or uncomfortable , would have made her a worthy member of most of the nineteenth-century dress reform movements . |
| 11 | Daniel had in fact imagined all these , and had also adequately encompassed her relief that small talk and eating were proceeding . |
| 12 | Carrie was very pleased to see the change in her father now that he had settled into his new job , but she still fretted over her parents , and she had not forgotten her vow that one day she would have enough money to buy them a decent house to live in . |
| 13 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 14 | Her image as a confrontational politician stems from her conviction that British politics had become an important , even a decisive , battle of ideas . |
| 15 | ‘ Because she 's still fixated with her idea that Old Red 's been carrying a torch for your aunt for years , and it 's now burst into a fine new flame . |
| 16 | On the substantive hearing the mother indicated her desire to seek medical opinion in support of her view that such measures should be used . |
| 17 | An Islamabad brothel madam had claimed after her arrest that senior politicians in the IDA , bureaucrats and religious leaders were among her regular clients . |
| 18 | It was beautiful , and somehow the knowledge that she loved his home made her slam that emotional door even more ruthlessly , turning blindly from her true feelings to hate him more . |
| 19 | There was n't much more Ma Katz could do to her face that Elder Seth had n't , but lines of pain opened up , and Jazzbeaux felt her vision distorting . |