Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing her scientific hat she is Director of the Neuro-Pharmacology Research Group . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hayley I tell you what , have a word with my mother because my mother 's done it for years , always taken tablets , and I reckon this is half her problem now cos she 's got to her old age she 's on the change , and these things have affected her throughout her life now . |
| 4 | At the time of her second marriage she was in love with Henry Pierce , an attorney 's clerk and associate of her first husband . |
| 5 | For all her industrious androgyny she is more beautiful than ever . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the first three days of her monthly period she is segregated in a solitary place and is not allowed to touch anybody or anything lest she pollutes it . |
| 8 | ’ It 's already being said of her that unlike her famous namesake she is one in whom the quality of Mercy is very finely strained . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And for once in her misbegotten life she was right . |
| 11 | So , when to her great surprise she is asked to the Spring Ball , by one of the most desirable men in this school , she feels that this is just to be another of the many jokes played on Carrie . |
| 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 | This applies especially to the Queen of the Night , for by her very nature she is shadowy , changeable and deceptive . |
| 14 | Her arms and legs ached , and because of her pending interrogation she was ever conscious of being stripped of her knickers . |
| 15 | It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest . |
| 16 | But in her small corner it was as if time had decided to take an extended coffee-break . |
| 17 | Although it was her first furlough she was using it to study for her Master 's Degree at Sidney University . |
| 18 | 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 … ’ . |
| 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 | Practical PC recently received a heart-rending letter from a reader and while it was already too late to help in her particular case it is worth going over her story to prevent others from falling into the same trap . |
| 22 | And erm in her particular way she was quite a good cook too . |
| 23 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 24 | When Ruth eventually stirred from her languid torpor it was dark and hot . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The married woman 's status is changing and from being a person in her own right she is becoming a chattel . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Her two year old is the youngest of nine children , and as well as struggling to bring up her own family she 's set up a health project in her community . |
| 29 | For her own sake it was a side she could n't afford to see too often . |
| 30 | 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 . |