Example sentences of "of her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green . |
| 2 | Then Benedict raised his head from where it rested in the wild disorder of her flaming hair , and his gaze met the misty love in the deep grey of her eyes . |
| 3 | She must have put the idea into his head herself : pinned it onto the back of his mind , like one of her flaming hairpieces . |
| 4 | After that implication that she was still in the prime of her fertile years , Mrs Strawson would n't have minded telling him anything . |
| 5 | Jacques Devraux watched in silence as she stepped out of her sodden clothing . |
| 6 | She had gone on and on about it until Lydia 's face had ached from grinning in appreciation of Betty 's praise and frowning in polite dismissal of her wilder flights . |
| 7 | Or even smiling in welcome , in some of her wilder dreams . |
| 8 | But , after a few seconds of delighting in the feel of her delicate skin on his , he pulled back , and never , as Fabia shyly looked into his dark eyes , had she seen such a joyous expression on a man . |
| 9 | Beneath the shirt , the mirror showed her the small fine flowers of her delicate bra could be seen . |
| 10 | It 's not merely a false stance though : the only person who knows the real Morrissey , his mother , has proved this on many occasions by telephoning Rough Trade 's office to complain about their handling of her delicate son . |
| 11 | And she was thinking of her lost shilling . |
| 12 | His mother was ‘ outrageous with joy ’ at the return of her lost child , and put him to bed , where in a day or two he recovered . |
| 13 | He kept thinking of her pirouetting , her small face impish , then her eyes filling at the memory of her lost doll . |
| 14 | This gives MacMillan the opportunity in the first act , which is brilliant , to introduce his characters in solos of vivid personality while Rose 's vision of her lost Prince provides a poetic pas de deux . |
| 15 | He said he would marry me , but I suppose he memory of her lost Dragoon . |
| 16 | It was no longer a fantasy , a ritual extension of the dark dreams of her night times , in which the doctor was to play out some version of her lost father , an ally against the demands of the women in her life . |
| 17 | Out on the fringes of the Vartaq Veil , looking for traces of her lost father , she had been part of a team excavating a Dyson sphere constructed around a white dwarf star . |
| 18 | After it was drunk , Lady Merchiston seemed to recover a little of her lost vitality . |
| 19 | Said to wander through the Vale of York in search of her lost lover . |
| 20 | Are we to blackmail her because of her lost lover ? |
| 21 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 22 | Jane Austen makes no sweeping judgements of her changing society . |
| 23 | By taking advantage of her vulnerable condition — ’ |
| 24 | French patriotism had been whipped Up through the antics of her revolutionary armies abroad , but the Russian Civil War had no effect of this kind . |
| 25 | ‘ Tack up Red Flag , Seashell , Parky and Joe and bring them into the school , ’ she ordered , and the little girls fled away , while Miss Bedwelty gave her new pupils another of her withering stares . |
| 26 | The Princess of Wales yesterday dramatically announced the curtailing of her official duties , widely interpreted as but with complete withdrawal from public |
| 27 | Pellucid blue eyes never wavered from their close scrutiny of her enquiring expression . |
| 28 | In a scurrilous attack on the Queen , the divorced father-of-two adds : ‘ She must get out of her gilded cage and realise it is 1992 , not 1772 . ’ |
| 29 | Thus while Ibn Battuta was tolerably enamoured of a pretty Greek slave girl he had bought in Ephesus , he wrote that the filthy freedmen of her accursed race were ‘ swine eaters ’ , drinkers of intoxicating liquors and ‘ enemies of Allah ’ . |
| 30 | Beside him , Melanie was acutely conscious of her clumsy hands and the long legs she could not arrange elegantly , no matter how hard she tried . |