Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other . |
| 2 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 3 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 4 | In 1931 she married ( Sir ) Albert Howard , MA , FLS , economic botanist to the government of India , the widower of her elder sister Gabrielle , who had been a botanist . |
| 5 | Sarah Jayne follows in the footsteps of her elder sister Leanne , who was 1992 champion , defeating Katie Morrison from Ballymena Academy Prep . |
| 6 | Her elder sister Josepha was already a successful dramatic coloratura soprano in Vienna , but by all accounts Aloysia had even more potential talent . |
| 7 | One was to her elder son Gamal , who was then in Florida . |
| 8 | Her elder brother Giles ( 1612–1663 ) became well known in the 1650s as a printer of Quaker literature . |
| 9 | Her elder brother André , an academic painter , was fond of Jeanne and close to her . |
| 10 | And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in . |
| 11 | How on earth was she to stop him — her dear Dr Neil who was so distracted by love that all his sense appeared to have left him ? |
| 12 | Yet Amabel said a very pleasant good morning to his mother , her dear friend Maria , who had been most gratifyingly keen to marry this ecclesiastical son of hers to Gemma . |
| 13 | And indeed when she reached the parish church she received a moment of instant gratification at the sight of her dear friend Lizzie Braithwaite looking far from her best in a regal but positively strident magenta . |
| 14 | And when her maids had got her dressed and done her hair and she had breakfasted by her tall windows overlooking her manicured rose-garden and a green , daisy-starred meadow , she had nothing to alarm her throughout the day but the possibility of a visit from the formidable Mrs Covington-Pym or the awkwardness , as she took her carriage-exercise , of encountering the wife of her dear friend Mr Adolphus Moon who had made himself so very agreeable . |
| 15 | But for Madonna and her dear friend Ingrid , this £3.3 million Spanish-style villa in Miami is to be home . |
| 16 | She clutched the doll to her heart , and told herself to think of poor dead Effie whose fate had been so much worse than her own , and that should teach her to count her blessings as her dear aunt Nella had always said . |
| 17 | The root cause for her worry , for her looking back instead of forward , was her dear brother Sebastian and how , a week ago , as casual as could be , considering his name was on the mortgage agreement the same as hers , she had received a postcard from him . |
| 18 | Ethel Topp told an inquest in Middlesbrough , Cleveland , that the last she saw of her 72-year-old husband Edmund was when he went out to ‘ clear his head ’ on December 14 last year . |
| 19 | BRIGITTE Bardot 's happiness is complete as she shares a proud , loving moment with her long-lost son Nicolas and the grand-daughter she feared she 'd never meet . |
| 20 | Manager Jean Cundy and her assistant Cherrie Elliott took the plunge and dressed as rabbits for the day , which was hailed as a great success . |
| 21 | With this in mind , Shearer and her assistant Heather Monteith , also a psychotherapist , offer clients , either individually or in groups , a combination of relaxation , breathing and counselling devised to suit their particular needs . |
| 22 | I grew increasingly fond of Dorothy Watson , the headmistress , and her assistant Agnes Fogerty . |
| 23 | Tricia and her assistant manager Julie Ford keep the restaurant open daily for breakfast , lunch and an early evening meal , from 7.30am to 6pm , while they also do buffets for visitors and boardroom catering . |
| 24 | Her assistant Cyril Nunn says , ‘ She always said she would be remembered by her pictures of them and not all the portraits of the society people ’ . |
| 25 | Valerie Moore is unable to understand how her eight-year-old son Lee strayed more than a mile from her home in Princes Road , Ellesmere Port , where he met his death on his brother 's bike . |
| 26 | When she parked her H-reg Austin Montego to go Christmas shopping , she made sure to slip the security lock round the brake pedal and steering wheel . |
| 27 | Her pregnant daughter Jeanette was living in a semi derelict block of flats and was suffering regular intimidation by drug addicts who forced their way inside . |
| 28 | Later Fiona Smith , who had beaten her greatest rival Helen Troke in the Commonwealth Cup at Bath last month , did so again in the women 's singles final . |
| 29 | Anna , pictured above with her adoptive mother Christine , today radiates health and happiness ; but the photograph top left serves as a tragic reminder of her early years in a Romanian orphanage |
| 30 | Linda Skelhorne who is trying to raise £15,000 to help her autistic son Shaun |