Example sentences of "her [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda Hopcraft 's words strike a chord with most of us — and in her case the missing item was a spare set of clothes for seven-week-old Jessica . |
| 2 | To her horror the top one was of herself . |
| 3 | Once she 'd downed some of the extra-strong brew she gave her sister the bare bones of the story , then turned dull eyes on Elise 's horrified face . |
| 4 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 5 | ‘ Yell if this is really painful , ’ he said , and slowly turned her foot the other way . |
| 6 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 7 | — I caught her trying to brush her hair the other day . |
| 8 | Even through the pain in her head where Guido was holding on to her hair the plain facts of what he was saying were finally sinking in . |
| 9 | Lucille Castineau stared gravely at her reflection in the mirror which , because it was only a small broken sliver , was being held by her maid , Jeanette , who was forced to tilt the glass up and down in an effort to show her mistress the whole dress . |
| 10 | Melody expressed her admiration the following morning as she stood watching Seb currying one of the horses . |
| 11 | Unless the rules are changed despite her talent the only time Jodi Evans will score points for Oxford University — is at an exhibition match — or in practice . |
| 12 | Searching through her mind the only emotions she could recreate from that time were a dizzying pleasure that someone as sophisticated , cosmopolitan , successful and confident as Doctor Anthony Gillingham should appear to want anyone as dull and provincial as she had been and a kind of a triumph that she could present Comfort with Anthony 's declaration of love . |
| 13 | She wondered if her fixation with Ace was because in her mind the two of them were inextricably linked . |
| 14 | And then , under pressure from Walter Ash , she allowed to slip into her mind the faint , faint hope that by some quirk of reasoning her mother might be persuaded to agree . |
| 15 | Walking the half-mile to Chapel market , she turned over and over in her mind the many questions about the murder that remained unanswered . |
| 16 | With her experience in social service in Britain fresh in her mind the new Territorial Commander took a particular interest in that sphere and was soon rallying support from the far corners of the earth . |
| 17 | She could not hold in a corner of her mind the rational knowledge that this was purely childish . |
| 18 | Even now she felt sorry for him , unable to fix at the front of her mind the full extent of what she believed he had done . |
| 19 | Constance could not get out of her mind the careless way Gioella had completely taken over Ludovico , excluding her as if she mattered not at all . |
| 20 | He had stooped to kiss her cold cheek and smelt in the hollow of her neck the waxen odour of death . |
| 21 | Annie has a little rug in her bedroom the same size , and every day she hoovers it . |
| 22 | She thought , you see , that it was her fault the whole thing had happened . |
| 23 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 24 | That 's what Ann said ooh if we ever owe her rent the dear old soul will say oh well next week 'll do |
| 25 | For example , Bill Naysmith , Group Design Director , was contacted late one evening to meet with Her Majesty the following morning . |
| 26 | Agents for the Duchess of York have signed a series of deals which will make her at least £3 million for her Budgie the Little Helicopter books , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 27 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 28 | Well if you 've almost drowned her one week I should think you could quite well bring yourself to put a spider in her desk the next week said Daryl . |
| 29 | The possessed woman , like her bewitched counterpart , becomes the immediate centre of attention and care , and although she exerts pressure upon her spouse the latter is not assailed as radically as he would be were he accused of being a witch . |
| 30 | On her death-bed the Catholic Nina contrasts its illegitimacy with the ‘ real ’ sycamore in the Bible . |