Example sentences of "and her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , despite frequent irritation with Helen over trivial expenses and her unbusinesslike attitude to her wages , he relied heavily on her temper , ‘ her genius for joy ’ , to help him break free of these moods . |
| 2 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 3 | Two other factors detracted *om her massive size : her agreeable , welcoming smile , and her extraordinary absence of wrinkles . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a pleasure , ’ she said , a little worried by both the intensity of Mrs Wallington 's earlier concentration and her current vagueness . |
| 5 | The 44ft ( 13.4m ) yacht belongs to the charter company International Ocean Ventures and her nine crew were there to learn about ocean cruising — the hard way . |
| 6 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 7 | Making her own way as a maid-turned-chanteuse , Madeleine experiences extremes of joy and sadness , and her toughest test comes when Eternité becomes an artifact to kill for . |
| 8 | And a strange sight it was , this tiny dark-hared person sitting there with her feet nowhere near touching the floor , totally absorbed in the wonderful adventures of Pip and old Miss Havisham and her cobwebbed house and by the spell of magic that Dickens the great story-teller had woven with his words . |
| 9 | The boys ' mother , Tracey Gardiner , 29 , and her five-month-old son , escaped unharmed after a neighbour and a passing mini-cab driver broke down the door and woke them up . |
| 10 | She will try desperately to use seductive charms to lure a male character into freeing her , telling a tragic tale of her spurning of Drachenfels and her long imprisonment , talking in a husky and seductive tone . |
| 11 | She twirled and swayed around the room in a slow dance , her skirt billowing and her long hair shining beneath the bright lights . |
| 12 | Just then the girl dropped her cloak , and her long hair fell on to the shoulders of her red jacket . |
| 13 | Another soldier pulled her away by her legs and her long hair left blood along the floor . |
| 14 | Tess 's cheeks were pink and her long hair was wet . |
| 15 | She read the Catechism in bed at night , occasionally sighing ; she would turn towards Bernard and her long hair — she wore it up for work , half-down in the home , fully down in bed — would fall over her face , over her white shoulder . |
| 16 | For a second or two his eyes seemed to be searching her as he glanced at her dark , tightly fixed hair , her face , her shoulders and her long neck . |
| 17 | He kept his eyes fixed on the crest of the hill over which she would appear freewheeling down on her bicycle , black hair streaming and her long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat 's wings . |
| 18 | She was holding a candle and her eyes shone in its light and her gleaming hair fell like silk on her shoulders . |
| 19 | A POLICE constable appeared in court today accused of the double murder of his wife and her retired clergyman father in Cookstown almost six months ago . |
| 20 | But Joan ventures where few other dog owners would dare to tread and her marvellous Labrador , Beth , has scars to prove it . |
| 21 | Contradicting and yet somehow enhancing the pinstriped jacket and skirt she was wearing , her sable-coloured hair was coiled up on her head , accentuating her fine features and her perfect neck . |
| 22 | She was thinking , as she went on her errand , less of the Rose-Dora-Dieter triangle than of Iris and her hapless devotion to Philippe Bonard . |
| 23 | And her posh accent was sufficiently artificial to be laughed at , where a more natural intonation would have alienated audiences . |
| 24 | She became friendly with many of the young intellectuals of the day , and her lifelong devotion to Henry Wood Nevinson ( 1856–1941 , q.v. ) , writer , war correspondent , and suffrage campaigner , dates from this period . |
| 25 | The court also heard that a woman and her three-year-old daughter passed the policeman' car only seconds before it exploded . |
| 26 | Thank goodness indeed , poor Kitty agreed , and from then on Lady Lucinda , smiling in her pram , and her three-year-old cousin Charles , featured hugely in her future plans . |
| 27 | Lords Justices Balcombe and Beldam ruled that the mother , aged 25 , was at this stage entitled to block local authority plans to put her daughter , aged 5 ½ , and her three-year-old son up for adoption . |
| 28 | A pregnant woman and her three-year-old son have been injured in a head-on crash involving a stolen car . |
| 29 | She was left with bruising and whiplash injuries and her three-year-old son Aaron , who was travelling with her , was also bruised . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd say a year or two at the most , ’ Belinda put in. — When Tom whispered , ‘ As long as that ? ’ in her ear so that only she could hear , she turned her face up to his for his kiss and blessed Deana Davenport and her ill-natured tongue from the bottom of her heart . |