Example sentences of "[det] [prep] her [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the subsequent weeks leading up to Christmas , Liza saw Freddie Nash only twice : once at a private party given by two officers who rented a small cottage in the district , the second time at a dance organised by a certain county grande dame , who seemed to think she was destined to introduce the opposite sex to one another as her personal contribution to the war effort . |
| 2 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 3 | Once that poor girl 's divorce was through , he hoped that some decent kind young man would appear to make her happy , and take some of her present burdens from her . |
| 4 | Clare had accidentally metamorphosed into a baker ten months before , when David took some of her homebaked bread to friends who lived nearby : they asked if they could buy bread regularly from her . |
| 5 | ( This was why he had not been allowed up to seek out Miranda in her room — though she had managed on several occasions to sneak some of her new friends past the desk ; while at night , there was no porter and she had her own key to the wrought-iron and glass front door . ) |
| 6 | Lucy with some of her 200 cards from well-wishers How the Echo reported the accident |
| 7 | To advance Japan had to learn from the West and drop at least some of her former respect for China . |
| 8 | Hiller , who did some of her early studies in anthropology , adapted a crypto-scientific attitude to create what is in effect a modernist celebration of female fertility . |
| 9 | recollected some of her early memories of those long-ago-days . |
| 10 | MARY McKenzie , first honorary member of Grayshott Good Companions , is seen here with some of her oldest friends at the club — Edith Taylor , Dorothy Osland , Jo Johnson , Dot Theobald and Rose Hicks . |
| 11 | Her first marriage gave her the freedom to compose , and by the time of Gramatté 's death Stokowski was booking here to play some of her own compositions under his direction . |
| 12 | In reviewing the literature on children 's visual search , and through description of some of her own studies on how visual search is affected by the language of instructions , Hall argues that simplistic conclusions about the limitations and inefficiency of search strategies in young children are often inappropriate . |
| 13 | And she , Alexandra Maitland , had a chance to put some of her own ideas into practice and see whether they worked or not . |
| 14 | But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her . |
| 15 | She burned some of her angry energy in the pure physical release of putting that paddle into the water and pulling hard against the resisting force . |
| 16 | Julie decided to top up her Californian suntan until Kitty Summerville called lunch , after which she would take a casual stroll to another of her favourite haunts as a child , the old summer house on the river bank . |
| 17 | Why Decca missed this in her long partnership with Solti remains a mystery . |
| 18 | Why did she have to get herself mixed up in a thing like this on her first day in London ? |
| 19 | Each of her long legs in turn was bound to one of the two benches . |
| 20 | Of course there were friends whom I could have asked , but I had seen an opportunity to be stubborn and had dismissed each of her suggested candidates with tiresome and irrelevant objections — too fat , too blonde , too tall , too many teeth . |
| 21 | He kissed the pliant softness of each of her swinging beauties in turn , and watched the cute nipples rise prettily to stand erect like two dinky pink sugar mice . |
| 22 | As an emancipated woman of the 20th century , much of whose life was spent in New England , Yourcenar feels compassion for those whose lives were thwarted by what she calls the philistinism of 19th-century Catholicism , that of her Belgian ancestors in particular . |
| 23 | It is likely that Alison Wilding will capture the fancy of pundits and punters , as much for her surprising omission from last year 's highly controversial short-list ( see The Art Newspaper No.12 , November 1991 , p.3 ) , as for the quality of the work which she showed at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , and the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Dean Clough , Halifax , the two exhibitions which secured her nomination . |
| 24 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 25 | ‘ My dress hangs here ’ is her only picture of the period and expresses with sharp irony her sense of outrage at her husband 's glorification of American values and incidentally reveals as much about her own sense of insecurity ( est. $1–1.2 million ; £666,000–800,000 ) . |
| 26 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 27 | FOR 25 years Marjorie MacRae has devoted much of her spare time to the teaching of Scottish country dancing . |
| 28 | Too much of her usual talk of ‘ dreams ’ and ‘ angels ’ , and too few signs of either . |
| 29 | She spends much of her free time with boyfriend Andy , 23 , who works as a forklift truck driver . |
| 30 | She gave much of her own time to helping those encountering problems with their studies through individual tuition at her home , frequently during the summer months in preparation for autumn courses . |