Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |
| 2 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 3 | At the time of her second marriage she was in love with Henry Pierce , an attorney 's clerk and associate of her first husband . |
| 4 | Trudy had put up with his nonsense with great patience but when she found him busily working away in the region of her left ear it was too much . |
| 5 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 6 | She was taken to a small Gestapo prison near the Bastille , and thanked her lucky stars it was n't Gestapo HQ on the Avenue Foch . |
| 7 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 8 | For , to conceal the fact that in her utter astonishment she was looking ready to drop , Naylor moved his chair closer to her and drew her attention by planting a light and loving kiss on her cheek . |
| 9 | During her late teens she was arrested twice for her part in political demonstrations and was later kicked out of university for neglecting her studies . |
| 10 | Even to her inexperienced eyes it was clear he was no beginner , and frankly it was a pleasure to watch him . |
| 11 | And for once in her misbegotten life she was right . |
| 12 | Like her great namesake she was always well organized , and of course she had had so much experience helping with my grandmother 's last six confinements , and going out sometimes with our local midwife , who to some would be a Sairey Gamp , but to those who knew her , another angel of mercy . |
| 13 | Her arms and legs ached , and because of her pending interrogation she was ever conscious of being stripped of her knickers . |
| 14 | It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest . |
| 15 | But in her small corner it was as if time had decided to take an extended coffee-break . |
| 16 | Although it was her first furlough she was using it to study for her Master 's Degree at Sidney University . |
| 17 | During her first episode she was also suicidal , reporting that ‘ she despaired of her life , weening she might not live ’ and that ‘ she would have destroyed herself many a time at their [ the devils , ] stirrings … ’ . |
| 18 | During her first weeks she was noisy and disruptive in class . |
| 19 | Although quiet and demure in her first term she was no goody goody . |
| 20 | She was a dark , broad-faced girl with Slavic eyes ; under her thick make-up she was probably little more than twenty . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , it 's bliss … ’ she began , then noticed Xanthe 's delicate widening of her eyes and a slight wrinkle of pale nose , like white jade , and noticed that on her fair curls she was wearing a small moulded felt cap , with a slantwise spray of fluffy feathers — ; egret ? — curving into her nape . |
| 22 | And erm in her particular way she was quite a good cook too . |
| 23 | When Ruth eventually stirred from her languid torpor it was dark and hot . |
| 24 | Even as she heard her own voice she was horrified by what it was saying , but somehow could n't stop herself , even though it went completely against the grain to tell such blatant lies . |
| 25 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 26 | For her own sake it was a side she could n't afford to see too often . |
| 27 | Even through her own embarrassment she was cynically aware with one part of her mind that Bert Harris 's interests would certainly not be served by going against a man as powerful as Luke . |
| 28 | If Olwyn did not go of her own accord she was taken , undressed and washed and put to bed forcibly . |
| 29 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 30 | It was n't just her own future she was risking by refusing to accept Alexander Vass 's terms . |