Example sentences of "her [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has done , I went to speak to her about it last Friday , but she was diverted cos |
| 2 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 3 | To this the Queen returned a gracious reply which while maintaining the full impartiality of the Crown encouraged me to continue to do my best to serve her as her First Minister . |
| 4 | But a stray recollection of a golliwog Maurice had given her for her fifth birthday undid the effect in an instant and she reached Swans ' Meadow with her eyes red and face blotchy from tears , only to find to her surprise that Ursula was in a similar condition . |
| 5 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 6 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |
| 7 | It did have sentimental value ; her mother had given it to her for her twenty-first birthday . |
| 8 | She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter . |
| 9 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 10 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 11 | The wicked mood of triumphant secret freedom which had come to her after her first performance of careful deliberate lying to Jack had , for the moment at any rate , left her . |
| 12 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 13 | Instead of worrying about what fitzAlan might do to her after her last defiant outburst , she could only think that he might be in danger . |
| 14 | Here , at Sally 's instigation , were many of the things Harriet remembered and loved from her childhood and growing-up years — the rosettes she had won with her pony , her graduation dress , her old collection of Osmond and Jackson records , her early attempts at photography , proudly framed , a pressed flower that reminded her of her first proper date . |
| 15 | The star was shapeless and the candle spattered with glue reminding her of her first efforts . |
| 16 | That reminded her of their last argument . |
| 17 | These , when they hatch , provide her with her first work force . |
| 18 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 19 | As a child of 11 , she had one which featured with her in her first professional engagement , as Dorothy in The Wiz , the all-black version of The Wizard of Oz , at the Sheffield Crucible . |
| 20 | The shoemaker dances with her in her first excitement and then collapses and turns into a tangle of dead leaves as she tires . |
| 21 | Three cars went by her in her first half-hour on the road . |
| 22 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 23 | Zara is relatively unknown outside Ulster so we have featured her in our Second Set series elsewhere in this issue . |
| 24 | The amniocentesis test had proved everything was normal and she had done her best to push into the background the treacherous thoughts about it which had assailed her on her first visit to the gynaecologist . |
| 25 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 26 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone says that , ’ she whispered ‘ You know the Lady Prioress was lying when you talked to her on your first day at Godstowe ? ’ |
| 28 | He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave . |
| 29 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
| 30 | He always thanked anyone who did , she noticed , and felt a return of the respect he had inspired in her at their first meeting . |