Example sentences of "one of her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 2 | Her favourite was listening to jazz , either live at one of her regular haunts , Ali 's Alley or the Village Vanguard , or sitting at home with the headphones on , listening to the likes of David Sanborn or the Yellowjackets . |
| 3 | Beneath it , one of her fantastic beasts , a scorpion with a Medusa 's head . |
| 4 | Curiosity was one of her best-developed talents . |
| 5 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
| 6 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 7 | ‘ I know , ’ she agreed with one of her tiny smiles . |
| 8 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 9 | Amanda did not reply , but the following week she returned to Dublin with one of her five siblings and this time visited the Rotunda . |
| 10 | Once widowed , she kept the estates within the family by marrying one of her five daughters to her nephew , Belton 's male heir . |
| 11 | She did care about American democracy , that was one of her great ideals , she looked forward to the ultimate conversion of Europe . |
| 12 | When he gently pushed her backwards and began undoing the buttons of her dress and cupped a hand over one of her small breasts she made no attempt to resist . |
| 13 | Lowering her lashes , she peeped at Feargal , then gave one of her small smiles . |
| 14 | Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll . |
| 15 | Steve leaned across the table and took one of her small hands in his two . |
| 16 | Nancy Shuttle with one of her Victorian tanks . |
| 17 | ‘ She could n't believe a man she had once regarded as an uncle figure could turn against her so viciously , ’ one of her closest friends says . |
| 18 | The pressure on her increased when half-way through the tour she learned the child of one of her closest friends had died suddenly . |
| 19 | She will today attend the funeral of the 11-month-old son of one of her closest friends , former flatmate Laura Londsdale . |
| 20 | PRINCESS Diana will today attend the funeral of the baby son of one of her closest friends . |
| 21 | One of her closest friends was Martha Lovelace , daughter of John , fourth Baron Lovelace of Hurley [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | One of her closest friends — in fact , her closest friend — lived in Nice with her brother . |
| 23 | Bridget was one of her closest friends . |
| 24 | One of her closest allies and friends in the last years of her life was Jane Clifford , whom she had met during the Platt Hall venture and to whom she now offered a new job as historical adviser . |
| 25 | It was reported on Dec. 17 that Aquino had dismissed from the Cabinet Trade and Industry Secretary José Concepcion , one of her closest allies , in an attempt to counter growing criticism of her government . |
| 26 | One of her closest aides revealed last night : ‘ You will see a new Princess Royal in 1993 . |
| 27 | I expect my aunt meant well ; I guess it might just have been one of her spasmodic assumptions of authority in the family — out of character and dramatic as these assumptions usually were . |
| 28 | Reform of workhouse infirmaries was one of her prime concerns . |
| 29 | IT WAS a confident and relaxed Elana Meyer who left Cape Town yesterday bound for Spain , and another clash with one of her sporting heroines , Liz McColgan . |
| 30 | One of her inner circle added : ‘ Even if they have not managed to kill the goose that had laid the golden eggs for the media , they have certainly succeeded in wounding her . ’ |