Example sentences of "her [noun pl] be [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Her lips were open so that the cold air came gasping there like water flowing much too fast to drink .
2 Her eyes were weird enough as it was without being bloodshot as well .
3 Her nipples were stiff now and the colour had not left her neck .
4 She wore a cream-coloured cotton frock with large puffed sleeves , sprigged with tiny brown flowers ; her stockings were cream-coloured too and on her feet were white , barred shoes .
5 But she 's getting carried away with this , though her friends are good enough but they 're all getting carried away as you would say with a bad crowd .
6 Veronica was in her mid-thirties , she guessed , and her clothes were good rather than fashionable .
7 Her clothes were neat enough but her shoes were a giveaway , so old and worn under their polish that they almost telegraphed her need ; there was a story to be told here , Angelica thought , and Angelica was a sucker for an interesting story .
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