Example sentences of "her [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She inches to the edge of the bed , he follows ; she lies on her back , his hand attempts to part her furiously dry lips ; she wraps herself in the sheet , the tense warmth of his body suffocates her doubly ; she leaps up and goes to the lavatory , he watches her through the glass wall . |
| 2 | Her vigorously uplifting entry ran : |
| 3 | Faye had n't spoken since Belinda joined the group , and her stylishly applied make-up could n't conceal the tearstains on her face . |
| 4 | It was almost at this moment , too , that the door was thrust open and the indignant lady stood within it and in a loud voice proclaimed in her most officious manner : ‘ When you have come to yourself enough to apologise , Peggy , I 'll see you upstairs in my room . |
| 5 | She realized that she achieved her most impressive results when faced with an empty room ; this forced her , she said , to feel the sort of fabric and decor that was required . |
| 6 | ‘ Indeed , nor would I , love , ’ she replied in her most placid manner , and then we both laughed , rather unkindly . |
| 7 | Although Gilligan tries to combine humanist and experimental methods , her most quoted examples , Amy and Jake , come from a conventional experimental study of the psychology of moral reasoning , rather than from the self-concept or abortion decision interview research . |
| 8 | ’ He and his court live in a luxury that is as excessive as his subjects ' poverty , ’ Posi concluded , in one of her most disapproving tones . |
| 9 | Alternatively , dance can be in an entirely modern idiom as in Martha Graham 's Diversions of Angels ( with music by Dello Joio , 1948 ) one of her most lyrical works . |
| 10 | Farningham described one of her most fearsome lessons in humility as follows : |
| 11 | Alyson thinks that her most useful legacy from her time at Somerville was ‘ not the history I learned … but the techniques and mental disciplines ( including not least a good arguing style ! ) ’ |
| 12 | Her thin leather elbow-length gloves had been dyed to match the dress , and she had intended to wear her most devastating hat , with a black lace veil . |
| 13 | Debut-ing Producer Verity Lambert would have access to a pool of new and established Directors physically to make the shows , plus , in the office next door , her most valued asset of all — a resident Script-Editor . |
| 14 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |
| 15 | She had exposed her most vulnerable part to a vicious archer . |
| 16 | Mr Malik had got to her in her most vulnerable area — the brain . |
| 17 | Enthusiasm was one of her most prominent characteristics . |
| 18 | A small , terrified child clutching a satchel with both arms as though it were her most prized possession . |
| 19 | She has relieved her most understandable feelings by taking this job . ’ |
| 20 | GLORIA ESTEFAN : ‘ The Greatest Hits ’ former Miami Sound Machine leader offers a collection of her most successful singles , in addition to four new tracks |
| 21 | The man was beneath contempt , she thought , and she gave him her most innocent smile in return . |
| 22 | Robyn wasted her most pleasant smile . |
| 23 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 24 | There are times ’ — Rose 's face took on the fierce expression of a schoolgirl talking about her most hated teacher — ‘ when I 'd like to brain her with one of her own golf-clubs ! ’ |
| 25 | The rule that normally barred women from the ceremony had been waived after representations on her behalf by the governor , and in response Flavia Sherman had chosen her most sober clothes for the occasion . |
| 26 | ‘ The truth is , ’ Rosa began , in her most teacherly tones , ‘ that when you want a man , and you look around and you ca n't see the one you like , you go into the kitchen , and you take a pound of the whitest flour , a pound of the whitest sugar , a pound of the most refined fat you have , and a flask of rosewater and a handful of raisins , another of currants , half a pound of almonds ground to paste , a squeeze of lemon-juice , a pinch of cinnamon and a sprinkle of powdered clove . |
| 27 | She said one of her most memorable times was in 1924 , when Malcolm Muggeridge 's father was the candidate in her constituency . |
| 28 | She excelled in playing ruthlessly calculating bitch-goddesses , clawing their way to wealth , security and power : eg as Mildred , the sluttish Cockney waitress who enslaves sensitive Leslie Howard in John Cromwell 's adaptation of Somerset Maugham 's Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) , the role in which she made her reputation ; as Jezebel , flouting the decorous conventions of the antebellum South in William Wyler 's 1938 melodrama of that name ; and as the indefatigably scheming Regina , one of her most memorable creations , in Wyler 's 1941 film version of Lillian Hellman 's The Little Foxes . |
| 29 | It is what leads her to animate the inanimate in her descriptive passages , and it is the child-in-the-adult that moves us in her most memorable characters ( often male ) : Denisov , Kissov , Gruishunya , Peters . |
| 30 | Her hair , her most striking feature , would change dramatically week by week from ash-blonde to lurid russet and spiky black to parti-coloured green and pink . |