Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The tenant undertakes to obtain all his or her liquor from the brewery . |
2 | Jane Pargeter sniffed and prodded with her toe at an imaginary stain in the carpet . |
3 | Distracted , Luce stubbed her toe against a piece of raised planking and tripped . |
4 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
5 | He said : ‘ I thanked her for her honesty with a box of chocolates . ’ |
6 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
7 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
8 | Ms Hoey , who strengthened her majority at the last general election in Vauxhall , which she first won at a by-election , has also caused a stir over Northern Ireland policy . |
9 | The appointment ended three weeks of political uncertainty during which Sheikh Hasina Wajed , leader of the second-largest party , the Awami League , challenged Begum Zia to demonstrate her majority at the first session of the newly elected Jatiya Sangsad ( National Assembly ) , scheduled for April 5 . |
10 | The occasion was a documentary film I was making on the life of Airey Neave , the MP who had masterminded her election to the Tory leadership and , as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , been killed by an IRA car bomb when leaving the Palace of Westminster . |
11 | Her election by the Left Alliance 's executive committee was aimed at reversing the decline in electoral support for the 10-party alliance evidenced in the general election of April 1990 [ see p. 37388 ] . |
12 | Critics have sniped that the dividing line between the political and the profit motive has never been too sharply defined on Hamnett 's agenda , a feeling provoked by such off-the-cuff comments as her enthusiasm for an idea that will ‘ make me rich and wo n't hurt animals ’ . |
13 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
14 | Hilton warns her not to skimp these obligatory verbal prayers in her enthusiasm for the new contemplation . |
15 | But I 'll do it ! she told herself , her enthusiasm for the task growing with every stroke of her charcoal pencil . |
16 | Her enthusiasm for the social programme is astonishing . |
17 | And she weighed Zuleika 's words , and the shadow-voices , against her own uncertain judgement , and put her boot-toe on the next step up . |
18 | Although Mrs Robinson was genuine in her sympathy for the anonymity her daughter strove for , she was Mary 's proudest admirer . |
19 | Because of her sympathy with the child 's point of view , and her belief that young children are frequently underestimated , Donaldson is sometimes associated with those educationalists who are opposed to formal education and who maintain that young children will learn all they need to know in informal contexts outside of school . |
20 | And also there was something in Lesley 's appeal that engaged her sympathy in a way she hesitated to analyse . |
21 | Martin had managed to inspire some kind of admiration in Clelia , and had enlisted her sympathy in the cause of his dissolving marriage . |
22 | Julie Clements was sent by her GP to the John Radcliff Hospital 's accident and emergency department to check if there were any broken bones in her injured ankle . |
23 | She lugged her case up the wrong stairway , came out facing the open lough , had to find her way around the superstructure . |
24 | She walked quickly beside the conductor , who carried her case towards the barrier . |
25 | He carried her case into the room she had chosen and she caught her breath as their eyes met . |
26 | He walked to the barrier and handed Donna her case over the rail . |
27 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
28 | Tricia took her case to a tribunal , and won an out-of-court settlement . |
29 | Evelyn was carrying her case to a waiting taxi . |
30 | However , Ms Mountford took her case to the House of Lords where a dramatic reversal in judicial policy took place . |