Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No merchant ship is likely to argue with HMS Gloucester , with her 4.5 inch radar controlled gun , Sea Dart missiles , and helicopter armament .
2 She peered anxiously into her six-foot-wide dressing-table mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last auburn tint , and found to her satisfaction that all her hair was the same improbable shade .
3 She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other .
4 Susanna Hoffs strolls across her posh hotel room and shakes hands .
5 With the help of the town 's sheriff , the oddly-named Harry Truman , Agent Cooper makes the acquaintance of those who have known and may have killed Laura , an intriguing cast of more than 30 suspects who include her cocaine-dealing , football star boyfriend ; her shy biker lover ; her crazy psychiatrist ; her teenage vamp classmate ; her beautiful best friend ; and the gorgeous Oriental window who took English lessons from the dead girl .
6 There were two children : Violet , born in 1894 , who was later to win notoriety for her turbulent love affair with Victoria ( ‘ Vita ’ ) Sackville-West [ q.v. ] , and Sonia , born in 1900 .
7 CHART star Anita Dels was on the verge of quitting her high-flying pop career after a nervous breakdown .
8 I shall enjoy her admirable turnip stew another time .
9 Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions .
10 Laura Brown , the youth worker , has passed her mini bus driving test and two senior boys have completed the Senior Member Involvement Training Course .
11 Laura Brown , the youth worker , has passed her mini bus driving test and two senior boys have completed the Senior Member Involvement Training Course .
12 Her vain escape bid lasted less than 60ft and a few nightmare seconds , before she crashed the white Isuzu van into a ditch in a haze of blood and pain .
13 was awarded her Professional Management Foundation Certificate on , for passing a series of four examinations during the year on : the corporate environment ; management processes and functions ; management information systems ; and human resource management .
14 Where a teacher is confident that in his or her professional judgement attainment has taken place but there is not a piece of concrete supportive evidence as outcome they are asked to annotate the context and their view of the achievement .
15 Probationary members must be more than 18 years of age and an amateur must hold a current handicap of 1 ; if already a professional , she must be supported by a reference from her professional golf association or Tour .
16 She 'd bought an array of stylish cosmetics , received a free lesson on how to apply all her expensive purchases from one of the white-coated assistants in the department store , bought shoes and bags and accessories , flashed her friendly credit card until she thought the plastic might melt from overuse — and now the finishing and most dramatic change of all !
17 Anger did n't suit her friendly snub face , making her seem out of place in that aloofly cut suit and he realised he was mentally taking it off her .
18 Over her eleven year premiership the only substantial issue of penal policy in which Mrs Thatcher played a decisive part was the privatization of prisons and remand centres , and the contracting out of certain criminal justice services .
19 Eszterhas ' notorious $3 million script came under scrutiny due to the portrayal of Sharon Stone 's character ; a bisexual killer with a fondness for ice picks and her fratricidal psychologist lover .
20 Could from her taintless Body flow
21 The man found in possession of her stolen cheque book and card has been allowed to walk free from court .
22 The man found in possession of her stolen cheque book and card has been allowed to walk free from court .
23 The man found in possession of her stolen cheque book and card has been allowed to walk free from court .
24 Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth .
25 In 1931 she married ( Sir ) Albert Howard , MA , FLS , economic botanist to the government of India , the widower of her elder sister Gabrielle , who had been a botanist .
26 Sarah Jayne follows in the footsteps of her elder sister Leanne , who was 1992 champion , defeating Katie Morrison from Ballymena Academy Prep .
27 Her elder sister Josepha was already a successful dramatic coloratura soprano in Vienna , but by all accounts Aloysia had even more potential talent .
28 One was to her elder son Gamal , who was then in Florida .
29 Her elder brother Giles ( 1612–1663 ) became well known in the 1650s as a printer of Quaker literature .
30 Her elder brother André , an academic painter , was fond of Jeanne and close to her .
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