Example sentences of "[noun] of her [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's all right , ’ Celia said , thinking of her too , but differently , ‘ I 'll ring Anna . |
| 2 | It was hard going , but as readers of her undoubtedly interesting although immensely tendentious book will discover , some progress was made , although so far as I was concerned with astonishing fluctuations in my popularity . |
| 3 | At the time of her appointment , Fohrbeck , who is a distinguished sociologist and studied under the renowned philosopher Jürgen Habermas , made no mention of her firmly held and openly practised faith . |
| 4 | His mother was rather a stranger to him , so he did n't feel the loss of her so keenly . |
| 5 | Now , as the throbbing drone of the aircraft 's engines broke through her dark memories , and she wearily attempted to make herself more comfortable in her seat , Laura almost groaned aloud when she looked back at the total innocence and naïveté of her much younger self . |
| 6 | She wanted to be left alone , but now the tedium of her resolutely normal life is plastered across 190 pages . |
| 7 | It will be almost impossible for photographers to sneak pictures of her there although the guide says : ‘ It is advisable for guests to draw their curtains if they want privacy because footpaths lead past many of the rooms . ’ |
| 8 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 9 | Most significant of all , this 1964 picture starred the woman with the most notable breasts in British movie history , yet who always managed — if only just and with the aid of her equally pretty hands — to keep them to herself , Barbara Windsor . |
| 10 | Two days later , he brought me a charcoal drawing of her , very lightly done , a sort of dream-like impression and it was so like her , it captured the essence of her so minutely , that I could not believe he had never seen her , only listened to me . ’ |
| 11 | Breathing her in , as if to keep the essence of her forever . |
| 12 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 13 | Cyprus ( to use a favourite expression of Elizabeth 's ) was taking its toll of her too , for Renny , her son , was doing his military service there . |
| 14 | Or perhaps , as Charlotte was reluctant to admit to herself , some part of her secretly approved of this blow at the heart of Maurice 's greed and Ursula 's complacency . |
| 15 | She touched him , her hands flat against his chest , tangling in the dark , dark hair , following its trail that led down and down , stroking the aroused maleness that would be a part of her so very , very soon . |
| 16 | For at this moment , standing here beside him , part of her really wanted to believe in things that could never , ever be . |
| 17 | ‘ Other than this job , ’ she added challengingly , some perverse part of her almost wishing he would attempt to deprive her of it so that she would have something real , present and immediate to fight him for . |
| 18 | In truth she was n't really interested in Taureg 's arrival , but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome , she supposed , for she still stood outside the real world , looking in ; a part of her still waited in Yeoman 's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening . |
| 19 | Just for a second , while part of her still jacked in , a sun imploded around her . |
| 20 | Some part of her still wanted to defend Luke Hunter , even though she was beginning to realise that he was far from being the man she thought she knew — the man she had let herself love . |
| 21 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 22 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 23 | She missed her so dreadfully when she was away , as though a part of her very own body was missing . |
| 24 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 25 | I had to do something to start this cow 's insides functioning because I did not like the look of her today . |
| 26 | Freeing herself from his arms , she picked up the coffee pot and whisked out of the kitchen before he could take hold of her again . |
| 27 | She moved to the door , opened it and was about to bang it violently behind her when Luke caught hold of her again . |
| 28 | He moved towards and took hold of her gently by the shoulders , forcing her to turn and look at him . |
| 29 | I ca n't get hold of her now . |
| 30 | Could n't you get hold of her yesterday ? |