Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 2 | Writing to her sister soon after the auction , Virginia was already depreciating her own aesthetic taste and attempted with a joke to pre-empt any criticism : ‘ Monk 's House will be perhaps the ugliest house in Sussex . ’ |
| 3 | Maggie went to Laura and kissed her sister tenderly on the cheek . |
| 4 | She kicked out in imitation of martial arts movies , putting her hip behind the blow and landing her foot sideways into the hooligan 's stomach . |
| 5 | Alexandra sat in front of her mirror in her new cream silk gown while Lyddy folded her hair carefully over the pads . |
| 6 | Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides . |
| 7 | Leonora gave him a polite smile as she tied her hair securely at the nape of her neck . |
| 8 | He was the sort of man who was always punctual and here she was with her hair all over the place and a shiny nose . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw the evidence with my own eyes , Melanie wearing only a dressing-gown , her hair all over the place . |
| 10 | She shut her heart firmly against the look of incredulous joy that lit Rachel 's face . |
| 11 | Mrs Ridley settled herself in a green velvet armchair , laying her stick carefully on the floor beside her . |
| 12 | Mrs Puri tapped her stick triumphantly on the ground . |
| 13 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 14 | I started Wavebreaker 's engines , used the bow thruster to drive her stem away from the quay and , with an apparent cargo of misery and mania , went to sea . |
| 15 | She claims that two years later pupils began taunting her about her weight both in the playground and the classroom which reduced her to tears . |
| 16 | As he reversed , he saw her march confidently into the porter 's office . |
| 17 | She snapped open her handbag blindly with a sense of gathering panic . |
| 18 | But Jude was not easily denied anything , especially when she 'd set her mind firmly on an objective ; and she was certain — despite Marlin 's protestations — that leaving Manhattan was the most sensible thing to do . |
| 19 | Bill and I would watch her sometimes , bemused by the eternal conundrum of women — grey hair straggling from its bun , a tweed skirt , stout shoes , rubber gloves , a rubber mat , oblivious to the way she looked , her mind fully on the job . |
| 20 | Running her mind quickly over the events of the week just passed , she could n't think of anything she had done wrong , and Tom Russell was not the kind of doctor who made mountains out of molehills where nursing procedure was concerned . |
| 21 | He remembered Karen 's absence like a silhouette cut from each scene in the house ; he remembered Sophie 's jeans and her underwear still on the floor . |
| 22 | Moreover , public expenditure restraints during the 1980s in particular have helped to turn the rhetoric of care by the community into de facto reality , as support services such as home helps and nursing auxiliaries have been reduced or withdrawn — a theme developed by Hilary Land in her chapter here on the demise of the social wage . |
| 23 | He saw her glance across at the table and followed her gaze to the brandy bottle . |
| 24 | There was no trying to disappear , for even though she had taken to parking her car carefully at the back of the premises , she knew the front door was wide open and the painter in the hall would certainly , if asked , say that she was around . |
| 25 | ‘ She decided it would be very much more sensible to conserve her energies for her programme later in the summer and not to go to the races . |
| 26 | She tried to brush her assailant aside with the words , ‘ One day all the facts , in about thirty years ’ time , will be published , ’ and was ticked off in return . |
| 27 | Bending forward , she trailed her mouth delicately across the bridge of his nose to his cheek , then down to hover tantalisingly at the corner of his mouth . |
| 28 | He touched her mouth again with the flat of his thumb , making her heart thud strangely inside her . |
| 29 | Lily said angrily , her mouth too near the keyhole , tasting the brassy flavour : |
| 30 | Japan regained her independence long before the period of rebuilding was over , but the terms of that independence dictated Japan 's international alignment in later years . |