Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 9 | As she set her foot on the first one she turned involuntarily and gave one last look at the parade — and started uncomfortably at what she saw . |
| 10 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
| 11 | Belinda Jones , ’ the owner of the name said simply , and waited while Dr Russell 's sister seemed to fully take in her presence for the first time . |
| 12 | She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes . |
| 13 | Here her expressive rubato is freer , so that in the first movement the opening theme is more impulsive , and her freedom in the second subject vividly conveys the sort of magic you find in her live performances . |
| 14 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 15 | FREED prisoner Karl Maxwell-Smith flew home to Britain from Thailand yesterday — and met his granddaughter and her mum for the first time . |
| 16 | And of course — there was Paula , gripping her harpoon in the third canoe . |
| 17 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 18 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 19 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 20 | She heaved her bulk up the next flight , her face reddening and her breath coming in short , painful puffs . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 22 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 23 | It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute . |
| 24 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 25 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 26 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 27 | Do not do as I did and arrange to work only to find that the childminder changes her mind within the first few days . |
| 28 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 29 | Nancy Banks-Smith of the Guardian consistently one of the best writers in journalism today , first wrote stylishly about Hannah in 1913 , and in her review of the last film declared : |
| 30 | And she wondered , as she headed for the hallway and the staircase that led up to her bedroom on the first floor , why the fact that that had not happened troubled her so . |