Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chesarynth turned round guiltily , so fast that she almost overbalanced , her toe catching in her hem . |
| 2 | Which supermodel is featured in the book having her toe sucked by Madonna ? |
| 3 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 4 | I can not understand where her weakness comes from . |
| 5 | Mrs Jones claims she saw her ex-husband crouching at the foot of the bed with a makeshift gas chamber … a box fixed to a length of piping . |
| 6 | It was her opportunity to escape from this crazy and possibly dangerous game of let's pretend . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , sometimes her enthusiasm seemed to jar . |
| 8 | She used to say that Christmas Eve was her favourite day of the year , and her enthusiasm added to the delight of anticipation . |
| 9 | If the Conservatives continued in power , because her GP belongs to a fund-holding practice — a superb Tory system , he insisted — there would be no problem ; he could put her on the waiting list and do the operation next autumn . |
| 10 | They claimed that records of tests which nurses said they carried out on Mrs Bennett had gone missing from the Royal , and details of her case presented to the coroner differed from what they had been told . |
| 11 | ‘ And one of the conditions of her bail was that she was n't to go anywhere near Times Square until her case went to court , ’ Carmen said . |
| 12 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 13 | He had fought hard over the year of her suspension to have her case dealt with speedily , and to get at the truth behind the allegations . |
| 14 | To maintain the continuity of movement on the screen from shot to shot , the girl 's walk along the path should be recorded from camera positions which are all within the ‘ 180 degree zone ’ on the same side of the path , eg at A and B. If shot 2 is taken from C , the audience becomes confused as the girl appears to have reversed her direction compared with shot 1 . |
| 15 | Elisabeth glanced round the Hall and seeing Mitzi was looking in her direction indicated with a nod and a smile that she would . |
| 16 | Panting , Theda groped her way through the thick undergrowth , her direction signalled by Benedict crashing through ahead of her , and the howls of the dog growing ever louder . |
| 17 | Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state . |
| 18 | Once there , Maria let her robe slide from her shoulders before stepping quickly out of her pants while Luke undressed swiftly , tantalising shadows playing over his flesh , revealed and then tormentingly concealed as he moved in and out of the circle of soft golden light that came from the lamp at one side of her low , wide bed . |
| 19 | Apanage glided forward beside Cleo , her robe trailing along the ground . |
| 20 | Her patience appeared to be inexhaustible . |
| 21 | All the difficulties were symptoms of her struggle to cope with the development of what the business had become , ’ Carolyn believed . |
| 22 | An accurate record of her progress needs to be kept and a check made on the experience she has gained . |
| 23 | However , it was the local authority 's plan that there should be a period of assessment of the relationship between L. and her mother , the mother 's skills as a parent and her willingness to respond to counselling , and that a programme of rehabilitation should be entered into . |
| 24 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 25 | Her eventual release can only come about through the death of Doc and the proof of her recovery lies in her willingness to participate in a wedding-feast . |
| 26 | If she was trying to impress Luke with her willingness to play by his rules , acting like a jealous child over what was undoubtedly a business phone call was hardly the way to begin . |
| 27 | Her jaw ached with smiling her appreciation . |
| 28 | She might be so bored that her jaw ached from trying not to yawn , but Nicolo — Nicolo looked as if he were about to explode . |
| 29 | ‘ 'T IS true , ’ she cried as vehemently as possible with her jaw clamped in his hand . |
| 30 | She smiled , her jaw aching from the effort of holding back the tears . |