Example sentences of "[adj] of her friends " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of her friends insisted that she remain in Britain to revive a flagging and mismanaged campaign . |
| 2 | My constant message to my second daughter is that there is more in life than some of her friends aspire to . ’ |
| 3 | At least she has her family for support and company , and losing some of her friends and social outlets might be less damaging to her than to her single sister . |
| 4 | She was n't like some of her friends who needed sex like they needed food and drink . |
| 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 | Added to her humiliation was the knowledge that some of her friends , who had seen the incident , could have helped her but did not do so . |
| 7 | More fun , Carrie thought , and was glad she had n't been left behind , as some of her friends had been , in the big town at the other end of the valley . |
| 8 | Some of her friends bought cushions and pictures and even , extravagantly , curtains , in an effort to make rooms look homely , and though she liked the results , she viewed the aim with contempt . |
| 9 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 10 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 11 | Hannah , and some of her friends in Baldersdale , have vivid recollections of the gentry and their ways , and personal experience of accepting the ‘ God 's Penny ’ and going into service . |
| 12 | The organization for the event fell to Sybille , who was expected to invite some of her friends and family to lend an authentic French air to the proceedings . |
| 13 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 14 | Consulting an astrologer on a Friday evening for a bit of a laugh with some of her friends was just about passable . |
| 15 | While some of her friends have taken drugs , Caroline 's been in trouble with the police for stealing from shops . |
| 16 | And then , waiting until her mother-in-law had left the house for a game of bridge with some of her friends , Laura had gone downstairs to telephone her cousin in New York . |
| 17 | Some of her friends and family contributed . |
| 18 | But when she emerged with her new face , few of her friends noticed the difference . |
| 19 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 20 | From the front door he could see her walking along the road past the graveyard with three of her friends , their heavy skirts swinging . |
| 21 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 22 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 23 | That was all it was , a meaningless kiss , but Paul had stormed out , leaving her to follow , making excuses as she left , conscious of her friends ' sympathetic glances , telling herself they did n't understand . |
| 24 | To many of her friends she seemed more a mystic than a likely scientist , despite her encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history ; a woman with religious respect for and understanding of the environment , an ecologist long before the term was widely known . |
| 25 | Vonetta was born in this country and went to a school which had a good multicultural mix ; she talked about the ways in which many of her friends , white and Black , love Black music and styles of fashion and find Black men the most attractive . |
| 26 | Although many of her friends have lost their jobs too , which , she says , means ‘ there is no stigma to being made redundant ’ , they all seem to have been lucky . |
| 27 | For a long time she had not been able to face many of her friends . |
| 28 | She found that she was not alone in her vacational penances , and that many of her friends endured similar harsh shocks and grating transitions , but she was alone in the way she took it . |
| 29 | Many of her friends were in politics or belonged to political families , it was the era of the Liberal reforms and that was what fired her most : she went to dinner-parties where she sat next to men who were going to make a speech that night and there were weeks when she went to the House every day , it was what she had always wanted , it was history , it was important , immensely important and she was seeing it , seeing it happen and that was important to her . |
| 30 | Many of her friends had stepparents , and few of them were happy about it : in their rambling and interminable discussions they would deplore the stupidity and selfishness of their elders in introducing into their homes strangers who were not of their blood and who insisted on peculiar foodstuffs and liked or disliked various types of music — whichever was most inconvenient and painful to the children of the house . |