Example sentences of "her [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ned Clarke did n't appreciate her views at all . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd be better off looking for someone else , ’ she smiled , her attempts at light banter failing miserably . |
| 3 | She could picture him so clearly , sitting waiting at the airport , that she ground her teeth at one point , made spitting noises . |
| 4 | She wrote no books , but her strong views on education were expressed in her evidence in 1894 to the Bryce commission on secondary education ; in her speeches at educational conferences ; and in her pamphlets , especially ‘ The Education of the Majority ’ ( a plea for middle schools for boys and girls between the ages of twelve and sixteen ) , ‘ The Training of Teachers ’ , and ‘ A National Education and its Application to Wales ’ . |
| 5 | She was still talking about the snake that lived under the water tank when Tom swung the wheel and purred rapidly up the hospital driveway , and if his face was still set in a grim frown and he did n't seem to be listening to her words at all , she should n't have minded , because the object of the exercise had been to entertain Faye , not him . |
| 6 | If she had cashed in her units at that day 's prices , just two of 102 ‘ UK general ’ trusts recorded by Finstat ( a Financial Times subsidiary ) would have given her back 100% or more of the money she put in a year earlier . |
| 7 | She has no lenses in her eyes at all . |
| 8 | Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first . |
| 9 | She has sold extensively through him over the years , and the appearance of her pictures at this ambitious Italian gallery is not a sign of a rift between the two , but of a desire to give the works wider exposure to the market . |
| 10 | is Head of Department at the London College of Dance and Drama at Bedford and impressed everyone who experienced her sessions at last year 's Movement and Dance Day in the Eastern Region . |
| 11 | I did n't know that , I thought I 'd put down what , some of the people one of the babysit for as one of my references because I babysit her kids at primary school age |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't see the point in her books at all . |
| 13 | In the Post Office while I was trying to phone Prague , Irena was getting free phone calls in exchange for correcting a German text for the manager , and when we went to a bookshop she had a friend who sold her books at half price . |
| 14 | In foreign affairs , Mrs Thatcher 's experience was slight , and her responses at first simple and superficial . |
| 15 | The youngest child , a mere toddler , had stayed with her parents at 37 Victoria Cottages . |
| 16 | Mrs Siswick first met Mrs Field when she was living with her parents at one of the estate cottages at Streatlam . |
| 17 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 18 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 19 | Helen left her daughter with her mother while she continued to take her A-levels at sixth form college . |
| 20 | She was out cruising for a bruising from morning till night , and when she was apprehended soliciting for trade up the high street and gated for the evening , she spent it flat up against the back room window , flashing her underparts at any passing Harry , Dick or certainly Tom , and making the most loud and ear-curdling noises by way of enticement . |
| 21 | Soft apricot colour flared in her cheeks at this rasp of disapproval . |
| 22 | The worst bit was to come , when the steamer rolled over and took in water over her bulwarks at one side , then rolled straight over and took in water over her bulwarks at the other side . |
| 23 | ( She told a gathering of women in a Mayfair hairdressers that Andrew loved fooling around — with her feet — and insisted on painting her toenails at all times . |
| 24 | She is dissatisfied and tends to comment apathetically on her dissatisfaction , but her observations at this point in the interview were very lively indeed : |
| 25 | She had come to England from Berlin in the 1930s and had begun her studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 26 | Her dreams at these times were of running headlong down streets and staircases , into cellars where the roof and walls closed in on her . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Franca , putting her hand up to her tears at last , ‘ yes , it 's a miracle — it will be all right . ’ |
| 28 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 29 | It had a high neck and narrow sleeves too short for her , from which her chapped , bony wrists and her hands on which every knotted sinew and vein was visible protruded limply , as if they were stitched separately to the cuffs and not part of her arms at all . |
| 30 | She could easily recall his smell too , as if he were in her arms at this very moment — an expensive cologne warmly melded with his very own Mediterranean muskiness . |