Example sentences of "of her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sybil , up in Hampstead or with one of her many friends , kept the home fire burning and joined the gang when they had a special bash . |
| 2 | Many of Hazel 's friends gathered at Yew Lodge to wish her a long and happy retirement , and regional managing director Graham Foote presented her with a microwave oven , a transistor radio , and numerous other gifts on behalf of her many friends and colleagues . |
| 3 | ‘ Tomorrow 's always another day , ’ she said , trotting out one of her many sayings , and he neither smiled nor mocked at her , but went downstairs to eat the supper which she had prepared for him , because that was the way she showed him her love and concern , and the least which he could do was respond to it . |
| 4 | She was hesitant , shy , reserved , ‘ more than pretty ’ in the eyes of the ‘ eldest son she loved best of her many sons ’ . |
| 5 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 6 | Many found her consistent equilibrium the most surprising of her many qualities . |
| 7 | … is ‘ flung ’ into the car by her father ( who is angry with Mrs Parton 's concern for the safety of her many hatboxes ) , his anger is expressed as ‘ Shut up you silly cow ’ |
| 8 | It was one of her many advantages that as a professional civil servant herself she understood the constraints of his career . |
| 9 | It was just one of her many tasks . |
| 10 | All in aid of her many illnesses , real and imaginary . |
| 11 | Clips of her conversations with Christine Mills , Marek Nowak and the encounter with Taczek floated before her , flickered like a silent film as she ran her manicured fingernails along the spines of her many books . |
| 12 | Yet , on the day when Harriet saw her off on Penzance station she was afraid that the new way of life Liza had now embarked upon would prove very far removed from that which she had spent under the dedicated care of her former headmistress , Miss Everett . |
| 13 | A suite here for one night would cost , she decided , a couple of weeks of her former salary . |
| 14 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 15 | Some of her former sparring partners still call her a ‘ sell out ’ , but a more open America has welcomed her as one of their own , hailing Monie as one of the world 's strongest rap talents . |
| 16 | Now as Diana is free to return to the social world of her former friends she will realise that Lisa is rapidly becoming its new darling . |
| 17 | Many of her former acquaintances refused to speak to her . |
| 18 | Cora-Beth was thinking the same thing as she watched Harry partner one of her former school friends on the dance floor . |
| 19 | His voice is still in good shape , but compared to his wonderful performances for Karajan in 1970 , he now sounds fatally uncommitted , interpretatively a shadow of her former self . |
| 20 | The electroshock therapy that followed her hospitalization of one unfortunate schoolboy left Marjorie a dull husk of her former self . |
| 21 | Now the girl lived in the care of the nuns at Syon on the Thames , a mere shadow of her former self . |
| 22 | Now , as you can see , she 's a shadow of her former self . |
| 23 | eighteen months on the model circuit had eliminated all trace of her former Somerset accent . |
| 24 | Occasionally she became upset when reminded of her former marriage . |
| 25 | She arranged a meeting with one of her former mandarins , who was able to refresh her memory on many points . |
| 26 | Although the dismissal in August 1990 of the Bhutto government by presidential decree [ see pp. 37652-53 ] did not , as expected , lead to military rule , the event was marked by controversy centring on the President 's arbitrary exercise of power [ see p. 37764 ] and on the haste with which criminal proceedings were brought against Bhutto and some of her former ministers . |
| 27 | Suddenly , frustratingly , Lindsey found that all trace of her former tiredness had vanished . |
| 28 | Despite the misery that still numbed her emotions , Folly felt a trace of her former enthusiasm as she outlined the scheme , suitably cut down to take account of her lack of capital . |
| 29 | Was the name of her former hair colouring : A dark beaver B chocolate kiss C coconut brown ? |
| 30 | But a factory job was out because she could not stand the noise , and her preference for a more intellectual activity ‘ is rather pitiful in view of the girl 's lack of general education and the nature of her former illness ’ . |