Example sentences of "year her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her last forty years her close companion was Dr Octavia Wilberforce . |
| 2 | A long time member of Martha Graham 's company and for many years her regular partner , Cohan became founding artistic director of London Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1967 . |
| 3 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 4 | God grant that here in this great home of eager thought and enlightened action and generous friendship the bitter cry of outcast London may never be intrusive or uninteresting but that year by year her choicest sons may be arrested by it . |
| 5 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 6 | The previous year her chief secretary had travelled home on black ice and thick snow . |
| 7 | See the kind Year her grateful Tribute yields , |
| 8 | Stephanie had in other years enjoyed this believed fairy tale : this year her own heaviness , fear perhaps of real birth , prevented her . |