Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her enthusiasm for this sport has not subsided and she continues to ski ‘ from restaurant to restaurant ’ . |
| 2 | In America , some law firms use consultants to analyse the behaviour of jury members and to choose the main ‘ influencers ’ among them ; the attorney then pitches his or her case to those people . |
| 3 | She may actually have pressed her case with less vigour than is indicated above , since by mid-1968 it was abundantly clear that ‘ broad-based support ’ was not emerging and she may have suspended her earlier judgement in view of the success of the first march . |
| 4 | She was soon forgetful of the time , however , her thoughts swiftly going back to the man who had put his finger on her doorbell at that hour in the morning , and kept it there . |
| 5 | This is done here , partly directly , as in the injunction to be like the serpent , and partly indirectly , in her perversion of such words as ‘ milk ’ or ‘ nature ’ , Her parting injunction to him is to ‘ look up clear ’ ( 71 ) , ‘ clear ’ meaning ‘ innocent , spotless ’ : the stress must fall on the verb , ‘ look ’ or ‘ seem , . |
| 6 | The inspector for the school explained her support for this proposal . |
| 7 | The family were observed for a day and it was evident how Mary attempted to dominate her sister at all times . |
| 8 | She stayed there for three years and lost track of her sister during that time . |
| 9 | Dare she push her bike through that gate — past those fierce horned heads ? |
| 10 | She fixed her bike among some bushes where it would n't be seen from the lane , and then ran along the grass-verge to the gap in the trees where the path began . |
| 11 | She 'll do anything to keep her foot in this door , the lovestruck loon . |
| 12 | Aunt Margaret scrubbed at her board for more space . |
| 13 | All of her deepest , oldest instincts told her it was crazy to put her faith in any man . |
| 14 | Asshe , thankful for her presence at any cost , agreed . |
| 15 | He did n't even look up as she stopped at his elbow , apparently made aware of her presence by some kind of sixth sense . |
| 16 | Would n't her presence in this house summon him here ? |
| 17 | They thought that my father was a bad parent because he dressed Eric in girl 's clothes and let him run wild , and my mother let them take him because she did n't like children in general and Eric in particular ; she thought he was bad for her karma in some way . |
| 18 | She was always so obsessed with her appearance , I could n't let her go to her grave in that state … |
| 19 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |
| 20 | ‘ Good God , there was a time I saw him — still but a child , to be sure — playing his fingers in her hair with such warmth and love in his face , such concentrated attention , as if it so fascinated him he could not leave it alone . |
| 21 | She smoothed her hair with both hands , peering at her reflection in the mirror near the sink . |
| 22 | Instead she lifted her hair with both hands , smoothing it up from the nape of her neck and piling it on top of her head in a soft copper mound . |
| 23 | I grasped her hair with both hands , binding her head against my loins while I came in her mouth , loudly and at some length . |
| 24 | Dierdrie asked , trying the feather in her hair at another angle . |
| 25 | Meredith met Lucenzo 's hard , stony eyes , and shivered as a strong gust of icy wind sent her hair in all directions . |
| 26 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 27 | There was an ache in her heart at that thought , but she did n't dare examine her feelings properly and rushed out into the yard , almost knocking into Miss Phoebe . |
| 28 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 29 | She had long ago closed her heart against all invasion . |
| 30 | I asked Pamella why she thought the press had treated her story with such virulence . |