Example sentences of "some of her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rendered all the worse by the high hopes I once had , the desire to wrest from Mother Nature some of her deepest secrets , however dark the passage down which I might tread .
2 She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed .
3 Once that poor girl 's divorce was through , he hoped that some decent kind young man would appear to make her happy , and take some of her present burdens from her .
4 When Eva took some of her black students to play the tambourine at a big meeting in Salisbury it raised quite a few eyebrows and temperatures .
5 Clare had accidentally metamorphosed into a baker ten months before , when David took some of her homebaked bread to friends who lived nearby : they asked if they could buy bread regularly from her .
6 Some of her fellow students accused her of selling out to the whites .
7 He had even made passes at some of her fellow students .
8 Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history .
9 Some of her married friends will still invite her to their homes , but her ties with others will be weakened .
10 Had Leapor survived she might have burned some of her unpublished verses as she did her juvenilia .
11 Actually , she is not bad as ‘ All the way Mae ’ — a character which becomes her more than some of her other movie roles .
12 ( This was why he had not been allowed up to seek out Miranda in her room — though she had managed on several occasions to sneak some of her new friends past the desk ; while at night , there was no porter and she had her own key to the wrought-iron and glass front door . )
13 ( Pat has a good strong Catholic conscience , a desire to pass on some of her good fortune . )
14 She may seek to use some of her annual leave entitlement as an alternative to unpaid leave .
15 Or even smiling in welcome , in some of her wilder dreams .
16 However some of her descriptive passages are excellent and the book is on firmest ground in the sections in between Rosandra 's accounts of her past .
17 Lucy with some of her 200 cards from well-wishers How the Echo reported the accident
18 The publication of the tape is likely to cause further concern to Diana who has already told friends that she believed that at least some of her private calls were being monitored and recorded .
19 Some of her former sparring partners still call her a ‘ sell out ’ , but a more open America has welcomed her as one of their own , hailing Monie as one of the world 's strongest rap talents .
20 Although the dismissal in August 1990 of the Bhutto government by presidential decree [ see pp. 37652-53 ] did not , as expected , lead to military rule , the event was marked by controversy centring on the President 's arbitrary exercise of power [ see p. 37764 ] and on the haste with which criminal proceedings were brought against Bhutto and some of her former ministers .
21 To advance Japan had to learn from the West and drop at least some of her former respect for China .
22 She still had some of her holiday left so she decided to go via America and visit some of her former colleagues en route .
23 Organisers also hope that the oldest living former employee , Elsie Kirk , 91 , will be able to meet some of her former colleagues .
24 Fabia ate a morsel of a tasty mushroom-filled pork cutlet that had a hint of caraway in there somewhere and , more in an attempt to recapture some of her former equilibrium than anything , she asked , ‘ Has this dish any special name ? ’
25 Unlike some of her former college friends , Robbie was no rabid feminist , but this last made her hackles rise again .
26 Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage .
27 She 'll show you how to coordinate pattern and colours , explain the importance of effective lighting and how to make the best use of space , and share some of her professional tips .
28 Later we were both shocked ( as Ivy was ) by the betrayal of Rose Macaulay by her literary executor , who published some of her intimate correspondence , and Elizabeth remarked how coy and silly letters could look when seen out of context .
29 Some of her best friends said rudely to her , ‘ Why have ye given away your money and other men 's also ?
30 Miss D'Armande 's room in this hotel was a small one , but in it there were many mementoes of her days in the theatre , and there were also pictures of some of her best friends .
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