Example sentences of "her good [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That night , as Hilda Machin was boiling milk in the kitchen for her good night cup of coffee , an unusual thing happened . |
2 | She looked even more attractive , her wide mouth a slash of red lipstick , her good bone structure tapering to a pointed determined chin . |
3 | The news of her latest pregnancy was broken in November , and it is expected the new baby will make a public debut on her Good Morning BBC1 programme , perhaps next week . |
4 | But on receiving no reply , he seemed hellbent on goading her , and she found she had no chance to be passive , meek and mild , when he went on to taunt , ‘ You 're paid well , I 'll grant , but even so … ’ his eyes flicked over her good quality suit which , while not drawing attention to her figure , had been costly ‘ … |
5 | Then the day came when Tess , wearing her best Sunday clothes on her mother 's orders , said goodbye to her family . |
6 | ‘ So even the performing seals are disgusted with his cheeseparing by now , and that night the lyric soprano breaks one of the hoops of her crinoline in the middle of her best love song because he would n't run to proper whalebone , and I take myself aside and say to myself … . ’ |
7 | At her best User Friendly would take some beating , but I take Bonny Scot to uphold the family tradition and confirm Cumani 's faith . |
8 | ‘ You sick ? ’ she asked , as she struggled into her best foundation garment . |
9 | There was cake , satisfying and fruity , and he sat on the edge of the chesterfield in Isobel 's sitting-room and ate it appreciatively between gulps of strong , sweet tea from one of her best bone china teacups . |
10 | She got up , went over to their table with the half-smoked stub , and said in her best BBC voice : " Excuse me , but I wonder whether you could possibly let me have a light ? |
11 | There was Cleopatra simpering away in her best Shirley Temple voice , ‘ Old gentleman , … do n't go , old gentleman ’ , and the spot could n't find her . |
12 | Until yesterday , he and his closest confidante had been forced to meet in secret , at carefully-chosen safe houses — such as the high-walled home of Camilla 's sister , Annabel Elliot , at Stourpaine , Dorset , or her best friend Amanda Ward 's secluded Berkshire mansion . |
13 | The children at school mercilessly bully Elenya , her aunt keeps her skivvying day and night , she yearns for her missing father and her best friend Sidney , a podgily dim Iago Wynn Jones , is eventually forced to abandon her . |
14 | Days after finding the card which promised so much happiness for the future , Tim learned that his wife and her best friend Elizabeth Over had been beaten and knifed to death , their bodies mutilated . |
15 | In a country where 60 people are slaughtered every day , the beach killings of young mother Julie Godwin and her best friend Elizabeth Over hardly rated a second thought . |
16 | Here , in this almost-deserted paradise , British tourist Julie Godwin posed and laughed , as her best friend Elizabeth Over snapped away with the camera . |
17 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
18 | The French windows were open upon the garden , and after a while she saw her best friend Constance vaulting the low fence which separated them and approaching her . |
19 | It 's already reeling from the murders of British tour-ists Elizabeth Over and her best friend Julie Godwin and the gang-rape of a 44-year-old woman in the last 10 days . |
20 | It 's already reeling from the murders of British tourists Elizabeth Over and her best friend Julie Godwin and the gang rape of a 44-year-old woman in the last 10 days . |
21 | As she talked at her home in St Albans , Herts , of her ‘ very special daughter ’ the full horrifying details of how Elizabeth and her best friend Julie Godwin , also 30 , of Spratton , Northants , were brutally raped then murdered was being pieced together in South Africa . |
22 | Maggie Jordan entered Reception from the back door to find her best friend Susan staring out of the window . |
23 | Kylie and her best friend Georgina Adamson also visited the pool . |
24 | Prompt at four o'clock , Dr Neil , complainingly dressed in his best suit at Matey 's request — ‘ Do I have to ? ’ he had said , rolling his eyes at McAllister — Matey in a bottle-green velvet gown which McAllister had not seen before , McAllister in her best sateen skirt , white blouse , and small lacy cap with streamers , were all sitting in the parlour when the doorbell rang . |
25 | ‘ I know what a slow comfortable screw is , Francis , ’ said Jay in her best Mae West , ‘ but I ai n't never done it against a wall . ’ |
26 | Limping , sniffing , aware that the rain could have ruined her best velvet skirt , she stumbled along , her eyes peeled for a phone box . |
27 | As she undressed for bed , almost forgetting she had probably ruined her best velvet skirt , Juliet felt warm and happy inside . |
28 | She was an elderly lady , small and frail-looking , wearing her best tweed overcoat and a small hat with some faded cretonne flowers on its side . |
29 | She did not quite admit that was why she wore her best summer suit and indeed had it rush cleaned for the event . |
30 | On a day so out of the ordinary , wearing her best summer frock , she was perhaps entitled to behave in an unusual way ? |