Example sentences of "her [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Horticultural Society awarded her the Banksian medal in 1906 . |
| 2 | In the combats on either side of her the outer figure falls back and another bends swiftly forward to support him . |
| 3 | Apuleius believed she was mother to the gods of the Roman Empire — DIANA , MINERVA , Venus , HECATE , etc. — and awarded her the additional responsibility of ensuring the welfare of sailors through the use of a celestial wooden rudder which controlled the wind and waves . |
| 4 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 5 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 6 | Please could you give her the enclosed PC from me when you visit her ? |
| 7 | Said treasurer called her the SILLIEST woman he knew … |
| 8 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 9 | She had to smile when the busy reality met her the following day . |
| 10 | He asked permission to leave it for her the following day . |
| 11 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 12 | He took breakfast to her the following morning . |
| 13 | To ring her the following morning seemed , therefore , not just a good , but even a right idea . |
| 14 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 15 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |
| 16 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 17 | ‘ Look at this , ’ he said to Cleo , and handed her the delicate instrument , which was a web of vanes and strings . |
| 18 | He gave her the gleaming smile she detested . |
| 19 | She knocked on his door and asked if he would be kind enough to show her the famous bird . |
| 20 | Beside her the pathetic corpse of the servant , the garotte cord still round his scrawny neck . |
| 21 | But the information she actually obtains from observing the price of her good tells her the total effect of these two influences and not their individual effects . |
| 22 | But he would deny her the simple comfort of being a presence in the apartment , she reflected savagely . |
| 23 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 24 | But as he walked at her side through the dark halls of the Grail Castle , he remembered , and wished not to remember , that she might well have within her the strange power that could awaken all manner of sleeping bewitchments and lost enchantments . |
| 25 | They call her the Regal Lily . |
| 26 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 27 | I gave her the bare outline of your problem , Leonora — it was necessary to explain why I wanted an X-ray in a hurry . |
| 28 | He took her through to show her the four-roomed suite that was his private living space within Liston Hall . |
| 29 | ‘ Here , ’ he said , offering her the first bowl . |
| 30 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |