Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adj] and [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife 's head gradually fell back , her mouth open and her eyes still pinned to my face , the whites showing like a frightened horse . |
| 2 | One of the old men was reading the Daily Minor , the knitter was knitting , Helena Naulls was asleep , her mouth open and her dentures slipped out of alignment . |
| 3 | She had been brutally assaulted and strangled , her body mutilated and her throat slashed from ear to ear . |
| 4 | She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said . |
| 5 | With clenched teeth , keeping her head low and her eyes half-closed , she hugged the cliff-face and inched her way along . |
| 6 | She was twenty-five , her hormones under control , her identity secure and her spirit her own , safe from thieves . |
| 7 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 8 | Slowly Tamar stepped down from the coach , her face white and her eyes as dull as amber-coloured stones . |
| 9 | Rachel stood frozen , her face white and her eyes staring at his face as she pictured her father , felled by the pressure of his life and work , facing his arch-enemy : death . |