Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she 'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions . |
| 2 | MY DAUGHTER , who lives at home with my wife and I , is in full employment and because of her low wage she pays a reduced poll tax . |
| 3 | She could have suggested that it was none of his business , or have made an excuse that she 'd forgotten to put it on , but , wits scattered , with her usual honesty she blurted out the exact truth . |
| 4 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
| 5 | With something less than her usual grace she sat down in the stern , then tensed as Michele lowered his lean body into the space beside her , his arm stretched casually along the back of the ornate black wooden seat . |
| 6 | The all-enveloping darkness made her progress difficult but in her emotional state she staggered on . |
| 7 | With her lower lip she tucks the upper lip into her mouth for a moment . |
| 8 | With this foot and all the solidity and strength of her right leg she levered herself into a standing position . |
| 9 | Her left elbow was tingling too and as she felt for it with her right hand she found that the sleeve of her blouse had been torn . |
| 10 | On her right hand she had a large pile of blanks . |
| 11 | In her right hand she weighed something which made a strange metallic click-click sound . |
| 12 | Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 14 | If she were her normal self she would be pottering happily around Simone , laughing whenever she got in her way and sticking her fingers in the food . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , it did , very much so , and quite unlike her normal self I would have thought . |
| 16 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
| 17 | After her fourteenth birthday she herself began to teach and never afterwards spent her days out of a classroom . |
| 18 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |
| 19 | In her insistent way she asked Jane for the loan of a field in which to hold a charity fair . |
| 20 | Wearing her scientific hat she is Director of the Neuro-Pharmacology Research Group . |
| 21 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 22 | To her further chagrin he did n't even raise his eyes from his task . |
| 23 | To her further annoyance she saw a faint trace of amusement in his eyes . |
| 24 | With her free hand she took the golden decoration from him , examining it with care . |
| 25 | With her free hand she dragged it more modestly across her breasts . |
| 26 | Although from her upbringing it might have been thought that ‘ visiting the sick ’ would be a part of her daily life she had hardly ever — thanks to the Welfare State — had to perform this duty , and then only with her mother or father . |
| 27 | For one thing she was very proud of her , for another when she talked about her lovely sister and her exciting life she felt as if some of the glamour rubbed off onto her . |
| 28 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 29 | Now on her darling Mira she bestows ; |
| 30 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |