Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 2 | The appointment ended three weeks of political uncertainty during which Sheikh Hasina Wajed , leader of the second-largest party , the Awami League , challenged Begum Zia to demonstrate her majority at the first session of the newly elected Jatiya Sangsad ( National Assembly ) , scheduled for April 5 . |
| 3 | Ms Hoey , who strengthened her majority at the last general election in Vauxhall , which she first won at a by-election , has also caused a stir over Northern Ireland policy . |
| 4 | The occasion was a documentary film I was making on the life of Airey Neave , the MP who had masterminded her election to the Tory leadership and , as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , been killed by an IRA car bomb when leaving the Palace of Westminster . |
| 5 | Her election by the Left Alliance 's executive committee was aimed at reversing the decline in electoral support for the 10-party alliance evidenced in the general election of April 1990 [ see p. 37388 ] . |
| 6 | Hilton warns her not to skimp these obligatory verbal prayers in her enthusiasm for the new contemplation . |
| 7 | Her enthusiasm for the social programme is astonishing . |
| 8 | And she weighed Zuleika 's words , and the shadow-voices , against her own uncertain judgement , and put her boot-toe on the next step up . |
| 9 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
| 10 | Today Michelle Howard took her case to the High Court , where she hopes to prove that Wessex Health Authority was liable . |
| 11 | He deposited her case at the front door then strode back to his car , and she watched him go with hatred , her eyes moving over his powerful body , so lean , so tall , so impeccably dressed . |
| 12 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |
| 13 | Last December her suspension was briefly lifted when she won her first judicial review of her case in the High Court . |
| 14 | Rory led the way to the disco floor , all too aware of the speculative glances slid in her direction from the other dancers , yet aware too of a peculiar little thrill of pride as she caught the envious looks in the eyes of the other women . |
| 15 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 16 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 17 | She sat up and tugged her shirt over the hopeless tangle of her hair . |
| 18 | Her khaki tie was tucked into her shirt between the protruding roundness of her shapely breasts , and her freckled arms were bare to the neatly rolled-up shirt sleeves . |
| 19 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 20 | The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 21 | Lissa adjusted her foothold on the sloping riverbank and stared crossly at the cabin cruiser moored on the gently rippling water . |
| 22 | On their way to the station she would not throw her coin into the Trevi Fountain . |
| 23 | ‘ Come here , my child , ’ said her mama gently , seeing her struggle with the tiny miniature pearls . |
| 24 | She parallels her experience struggling to gain control of her body on the trapeze with her struggle with the creative process ; ‘ working on the trapeze one is continually putting oneself in a position of overcoming fear . |
| 25 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 26 | Delia Sutherland stopped calling her unreturned greetings , tried to ignore the many pairs of sun-tired eyes , slow-moving behind glaucous panes , as they measured her progress past the wooden church , the school , the town hall , the fire house , the inn . |
| 27 | Writing in this week 's Health Service Journal , she detailed her progress with the other units . |
| 28 | The church was very full and although Amabel could not speak to everyone on her progress to the front pew she paused before taking her seat and smiled sweetly , generally , at the congregation , hoping that no one would feel left out . |
| 29 | Some similar process in Ursula presumably explained her willingness for the first time to discuss arrangements for the funeral , which they agreed should be held as soon as possible . |
| 30 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |