Example sentences of "her [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana had been in love with Prince Charles for several years , since their first meeting when she was a sixteen-year-old home from school for half-term and he was her elder sister 's boyfriend . |
| 2 | Her elder sister perished in a concentration camp ; her father was killed in a motor-car crash ; and a love affair with Walter Carr , a member of the newspaper family , ended with his death from a brain haemorrhage . |
| 3 | For some reason he was put in mind of the daughter of a shabby-genteel family having to wear her elder sister 's cast-offs . |
| 4 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 5 | Her elder sister Josepha was already a successful dramatic coloratura soprano in Vienna , but by all accounts Aloysia had even more potential talent . |
| 6 | Her elder sister ( 8 years ) had a much more accurate view of what Maria liked to play with . |
| 7 | Her elder sister rebukes her : ‘ It 's only providing for its family ; it has a right to them . |
| 8 | If Charles 's first memories of Diana on that fateful weekend are of ‘ a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old — full of fun ’ , then it was certainly no thanks to her elder sister . |
| 9 | One survivor recalled that having made up her mind to do this , she asked her elder sister to put in a word for her . |
| 10 | They had recently had to cope with her elder sister becoming pregnant . |
| 11 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 12 | In 1931 she married ( Sir ) Albert Howard , MA , FLS , economic botanist to the government of India , the widower of her elder sister Gabrielle , who had been a botanist . |
| 13 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 14 | She was , in spite of her exasperated commotion , deeply attached to her elder sister . |
| 15 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |
| 16 | Sarah Jayne follows in the footsteps of her elder sister Leanne , who was 1992 champion , defeating Katie Morrison from Ballymena Academy Prep . |
| 17 | In 1944 , when she was out shopping , a flying bomb killed her elder child . |
| 18 | I was frightened for her and frantically worried , ’ remembers Rosemerry , who also had her elder daughter , Rosalind , now 17 , to look after . |
| 19 | Her elder son , who had done a conservation course , would have been warden , her elder daughter — a very good journalist — would do the publicity , her younger daughter , an artist and photographer , would design the field centre and set up exhibitions , and her younger son , an excellent communicator of great charm , would show the schoolchildren round . |
| 20 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |
| 21 | Living there were Mrs. Dear , her elder daughter , another daughter with her husband who was a main line engine driver and their three children . |
| 22 | At ten to seven that terrible morning she had woken her elder daughter , a thirteen-year-old who , with her eleven-year-old sister , was sleeping in a caravan just outside the front door of the family home . |
| 23 | Inside the caravan her elder daughter was pushing at the door to come out . |
| 24 | Her elder daughter came in with roses in her cheeks where she had pinched herself , in order to give her swarthy complexion colour , as her mother had once shown her . |
| 25 | Nenna would have felt better pleased with herself if she had resembled her elder daughter . |
| 26 | Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last . |
| 27 | Margaret had been close to tears as she 'd responded to her elder daughter 's terse demand for further information — a phenomenon in itself , as Gina knew her mother rarely allowed emotion to disturb the still beautiful contours of her face . |
| 28 | ‘ I imagine Suzie will soon bounce back , ’ Margaret continued , clearly uninterested in her elder daughter 's experiences . |
| 29 | My constituent felt strongly that neither the amount on offer from the student loans scheme nor the money available from the postgraduate access fund would be enough to compensate for the loss of housing benefit to her undergraduate daughter or to her elder daughter , who was on the postgraduate music course . |
| 30 | Lucia Glanville ( Mrs Turner ) wrote to say that , sadly , her elder daughter , Rosalie , was killed in a car crash in 1989 . |