Example sentences of "her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 32 | Distracted , Luce stubbed her toe against a piece of raised planking and tripped . |
| 33 | front of me and she burnt , she 's burnt her toe you know on that fire ! |
| 34 | Wendy Jacobs , a member of the Chicago group Ha-Ha , will construct ‘ breathing walls ’ , in an echo of her installation at Schipper last year . |
| 35 | While she does have the merit , in contrast to the majority of researchers , of making the distinction between an inner state and an outward act , her definitions do not emerge as analytic categories to be employed for comparative purposes — mainly because they do not avoid the problem of reification , raised below . |
| 36 | When , however , we examine her definitions and her evidence we find that the differences she discovers in performance skills are no more than differences in explicitness , of the kind noted by Labov . |
| 37 | Suddenly her preserve has been violated . |
| 38 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 39 | Every morning she arrived at our door and spent five minutes flustering around with her hand-broom . |
| 40 | When they had gone , Lily cried for them in their helplessness , feeling , for all her weakness , stronger than them , realising that it was easier to contemplate one 's own death than the death of someone loved . |
| 41 | No one sneers about her weakness for shoes these days . |
| 42 | She lived to regret what she regarded as her weakness , for the child 's fate was to be so terrible that his existence had to be denied in her own mind . |
| 43 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 44 | He assumes the authority of the patriarch and saves Terentia from her weakness . |
| 45 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 46 | It was too late to save the mother , but by flaunting my privileges under her nose , taunting her with the contrast between my power and her weakness , my wealth and her poverty , I was helping to ensure that her children 's chances in life would never be blighted by the well-wishing do-goodism which had crippled me . |
| 47 | Despising herself for her weakness she reached for the telephone , dialling Nick 's number . |
| 48 | I was reluctant to kiss my mother , afraid that somehow her weakness and unhappiness would infect me . |
| 49 | But memory of her weakness , of her unwillingness to shoot him one last , final time , made her feel sick to her stomach . |
| 50 | She let him stare , let him take in her spirit , her strength , and her weakness . |
| 51 | If she did she would burst into tears , and she did n't want him to see her weakness . |
| 52 | Betty had taken advantage of her weakness , and here she was . |
| 53 | Louise Levine is , in many ways , the antithesis of all the '90's has been hyped to be about , but far from being her weakness , this is her strength . |
| 54 | When it rained , she thought nature was crying at her weakness , and when the midnight wind blew she thought nature was angry with her . |
| 55 | Reason had grown wings and flown out of the window , but she knew that she had to recapture it or else give in to him , and live to regret her weakness . |
| 56 | I think he allows her considerable freedom over her — her weakness , you know , and so she is quite content to work for him whatever the village may say of him , and they do , to be sure , say some very foolish things . |
| 57 | ‘ They 're lovely , Rob , ’ she murmured , moving away so that he should n't see her weakness , and forcing herself to say , ‘ Luke told me that the party was a huge success . |
| 58 | He knew of her weakness . |
| 59 | It was hardly the way her readers would expect the creator of Nathan Latimer to react to a crisis , she thought , ashamed of her weakness . |
| 60 | Alternatively , the reader can interpret this as a sign of her weakness , that she requires this support to justify her actions . |