Example sentences of "her [num ord] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Many tributes were paid to 's invaluable help and friendship to the Society over many years , a cake made and decorated by our members was presented to , also a basket of flowers , and QTs joined in her 90th Birthday celebrations . |
2 | She used to walk with two sticks , but fell down at her 90th birthday party when she stumbled over a low table and broke her hip again . |
3 | She sat on the banquette against the wall , sipping her second medium sherry of the evening , deliberately making it last , knowing that Colin was impatient to order the next round . |
4 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
5 | Bernadette Johnson , of Brae , who is entering her second year studies for a PhD degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow ; and |
6 | And she was going through and she knew them and er she was going into I it was her second year bio-chemistry exams on the bus and she 's got a bi a text book on bio-chemistry and she 's reading the introduction bit before you even get into proper bio-chemistry and Michael s look leant across and said , what on earth are you doing ? |
7 | Lonely and feeling sorry for herself , she regularly wandered from her second floor apartment to the kitchens to chat to the staff . |
8 | During her night 's stay a fire broke out in the hotel and the guest , in a panic , attempted to leave her second floor room through her window by means of a ‘ rope ’ made from bed linen . |
9 | On her second day Madame Mattli took her to Vidal Sassoon 's salon in Grosvenor House so that her hair could be cut in an up-to-the-minute style . |
10 | Blair is a famous actress about to be divorced from her second husband Morgan . |
11 | AFTER her second husband Stefano Casiraghi 's death , many thought that Princess Caroline would ditch her plea to the Pope to have her first marriage annulled . |
12 | Paul Cole 's grey , who has won in Ireland , Italy , Germany and Canada , had a neck to spare when taking her second Vodafone Nassau Stakes at Goodwood on Saturday . |
13 | Florence Ames ate the last half of her second chocolate éclair , laid down her fork , wiped her mouth , finished her coffee , wiped her mouth again . |
14 | Annika Sorenstam , the 22-year-old Swede who was playing in what was only her second LPGA event , finished as well placed as fourth — a performance which won her some $37,000 . |
15 | Radegund is extensively commemorated as an abbess and a saint in the writings of Venantius Fortunatus and her second biographer Baudonivia . |
16 | Cicely Harris had her second hip operation in October and was delighted , at Christmas-time to be able to throw away her stick ; by February she was dancing again and in April was back on the bowling green ; she participated in the May competitions at her club and managed to win a cup — which you see her holding here . |
17 | Only the day before mum-of-two Angela celebrated her 32nd wedding anniversary with husband Tony , 54 , boss of the company that dreamed up the PG Tips chimp adverts . |
18 | It was n't just the fact that she was going to have to make her umpteenth phone call , asking the electrical repair man to call at the apartment yet again , which was so deeply depressing ; her own personal life — like that of the antiquated air-conditioning system — seemed to keep breaking down just when she was hopeful of a permanent repair . |
19 | This soliloquy , one of Leapor 's strongest statements on the treatment of women , was , as Betty Rizzo observes , mentioned by none of her eighteenth century admirers [ Rizzo ] . |
20 | She decided not to see Phil and his band Genesis even though he 's a friend who played at her 30th birthday party in the Savoy Hotel and she has no engagements that evening . |
21 | He coined the Latin phrase , which the Queen used in her 40th anniversary speech at the Guildhall , in a letter to her expressing sympathy over the Windsor Castle fire . |
22 | But she was confused when it came to buying an off-the-peg suit for her 40th wedding anniversary party . |
23 | But recently , fancying an off-the-peg suit for her 40th wedding anniversary party , Barbara realised that she would be so confused by clothes shopping that she would need to seek advice . |
24 | In her admittedly bland , yet rather touching view of the Queen Mother , Alison Watt included her trademark , a lone tea-cup , which brought forth the scorn of critics like Brian Sewell , who called it ‘ a hideous jumble ’ , making the Queen Mother look like ‘ an ancient pensioner waiting for her 100th birthday telegram from the Queen ’ . |
25 | Increasingly infirm , she was unable to visit Spain , but she did travel to London for her ninety-third birthday party in 1937 . |
26 | And with me , perhaps , she was even more cautious than with her sixth form girls who had mothers to put the other side of the argument . |
27 | Javer served for the match at 5–2 in the second , but was taken to seven deuces , before blasting a backhand to the Turk 's feet to snatch the rubber on her sixth match point after one hour 12 minutes . |
28 | The Prime Minister , he said , had entrusted him with delivering her fourth election victory . |
29 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
30 | Artemis asked , as she stood admiring her fifteenth birthday present , a stunning looking dark brown thoroughbred gelding which Jenkins had been instructed to lead up outside the house as a surprise . |