Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of her [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said that she was waiting for some of her belongings to be sent on , but she 'd supply all her tax and National Insurance details as soon as they came . |
| 2 | It was claimed that the police investigated the attack which happened as Kylie returned to Australia after another of her visits to Britain . |
| 3 | Malatie looked at the photographs of each of her children with equal pride . |
| 4 | I was talking to a friend of mine actually on Monday who is erm parti partially Indian and come from India and from Calcutta and she is high caste but she 's a Catholic as well so she 's her attitude 's different she 's lived in England most of her life but she ca n't get over the attitude of some of her relatives in India to the poor because they 're lower caste . |
| 5 | Subtle changes take place , too , in the attitudes of some of her friends to whose circle she belonged when her husband was alive , which may lead her to feel rejected at a time when she needs to be accepted in her new role and to have her self-esteem strengthened . |
| 6 | She recognized the face of one of her attackers beneath a layer of blue gel . |
| 7 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 8 | She was there with some of her girlfriends from Van Cleef and Arpels ; that 's where she used to work . |
| 9 | We met next time with me in uniform , and she evacuated with some of her patients to Polegate . |
| 10 | FAREWELL DINNER … relaxes at her farewell dinner with some of her colleagues from Kentford , from left , and . |
| 11 | ‘ I have had lovers , ’ announced the fräulein , launching into another of her bouts of desperate and embarrassing honesty . |
| 12 | At the end of August Aquino offered to hold peace talks with all of her enemies including the right-wing military dissidents and the NPA [ see pp. 37657-58 ] . |
| 13 | With a successful press conference behind him , he felt a new confidence in his ability to handle Marjorie , even though she was clearly well launched into one of her periods of being thoroughly tiresome . |
| 14 | Mrs. Fielding , who suffers from extreme nervousness , was staying with one of her sons over the new year when thieves broke into her home in Milton Keynes and ransacked it . |
| 15 | Rose 's ma lived with five of her children on the ground floor of one of the tenement buildings about three-quarters of a mile from Vetch Street . |
| 16 | Maman 's perception had probably told how impossible it would be for him to part with any of her things in his lifetime . |
| 17 | Emma Southworth went with two of her workmates to classes every evening after she finished at the mill . |
| 18 | Ellen , together with thousands of her comrades from SWAPO will soon be inside the country campaigning for the elections , and come independence will be leading the long hard struggle of reconstructing their country after decades of one of the most brutal colonial occupations . |
| 19 | She was moving about the room now , balancing painfully but stoically on her high heels , taking empty cups and plates from each of her guests with a gentle murmur for every one of them . |
| 20 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 21 | ‘ At all costs ’ , wrote Dorothy Hardisty in one of her reports to the RCM executive , ‘ we must try to dissuade our boys and girls from believing that London is the answer to all their prayers . ’ |
| 22 | Cheverel Manor , in one of her Scenes of Clerical Life , has been transformed in 1788 by Sir Christopher Cheverel , from a plain brick family mansion into a Gothic manor house , thus anticipating ( in George Eliot 's view ) ‘ that general reaction from the insipid imitation of the Palladian style ’ . |
| 23 | As each slightly shamefaced figure came up to the table , she peered intently at the face , muttered ‘ Sweet or dry ? ’ and then poured from one of her bottles as if administering Syrup of Figs or Cod Liver Oil to the infant sick . |
| 24 | Mother Teresa was driven there from one of her missions in Kensal Rise , west London . |
| 25 | During one of her absences from the room everyone shook their heads and agreed that Vicky was ‘ a very sad case ’ . |
| 26 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 27 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 28 | Tonight , for example , after Emily was in bed , she 'd get down to work on some of her designs for accessories . |
| 29 | Her attitude toward individual patrons sets her beyond most of her contemporaries in defending the integrity of her work . |
| 30 | Millie glances at each of her parents in turn , then picks up her dessert spoon and studies that instead . |