Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd have been better with someone nearer her own age , ’ the old woman murmured to herself . |
| 2 | But she also had alliances with people nearer her own age , notably with a wild young postgraduate architect , a hard-drinking , reckless , one-off character called Colin Lindsey , who was already provided with a wife and a baby , but who would nevertheless take his turn to sit on Esther 's beaded rug . |
| 3 | Also , I was conscious that my little friend Suzi Hoflin is usually the only young one at these evenings , so I thought a couple of extra women nearer her own age would make her feel less conspicuous . ’ |
| 4 | Better she should be with a youngster nearer her own age than with him , who anyway fancied Rose Hilaire . |
| 5 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 6 | She wished she could think of something to say that would make him trust her , only after her stupid behaviour earlier she thought it might be a long time before he fully believed her . |
| 7 | ‘ Alain will be home in the morning , ’ Marguerite observed as she came to bid Jenna goodnight after her second day in bed . |
| 8 | Sadly she is recently widowed after her second marriage . |
| 9 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 10 | Now , after her long fight against cancer , she rested in the arms of Jesus for evermore . |
| 11 | In the Four Last Songs , it was good to discover that the soprano Amanda Roocroft 's voice is unimpaired after her long bout of glandular fever . |
| 12 | She straightened her shoulders , perhaps she had done enough for today , mam would be getting restless wanting a bit of attention after her long day spent mostly alone . |
| 13 | She was feeling tired , what with all her hard work and the walk , and writing for J.D. after her long day was over . |
| 14 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
| 15 | Frances Earnshaw visited her often , bringing her pretty dresses to wear , and persuading her to take care of her appearance , so that when she finally came home after her long absence , she almost seemed a different person . |
| 16 | The film 's unexpected success must have been a relief after her long maternity break , proof that she could come back : there are now talks of buddy pic with Madonna . |
| 17 | In the course of time Aunt Nessy , having looked after her adoptive parents until they died , was left a small sum of money . |
| 18 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked on one of the sweets . |
| 19 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked . |
| 20 | IN April 1917 , shortly after her nineteenth birthday , Jeanne Hébuterne was trying on her costume for the artists ' fancy dress ball during the Carnival . |
| 21 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 22 | After her coy glances and generous cups of wine , they were lured out into the dark so Rachel might speak where no spy could overhear . |
| 23 | Julie set up the meningitis support group a year ago after her 13-year-old daughter Alison died from the illness . |
| 24 | One with a job during the day , who enjoyed looking after her small domain , and who did not demand too much attention from her landlady . |
| 25 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 26 | The man had started indecently assaulting his daughter when she was 13 , and progressed to intercourse shortly after her 15th birthday . |
| 27 | Colin Barnett , the husband of Aisling Barnett , the liver transplant patient , said she was still in a coma and looking ‘ quite peaceful ’ after her 11-hour operation . |
| 28 | But when the Nefertari appeared after her annual refit , she was gleaming with fresh white and blue paint and varnished wood . |
| 29 | Just time for a quick honeymoon followed by a few fond farewells , and the intrepid sailor was off again on board his old ship on 17 February , leaving his second wife to look after her newly-acquired stepchildren , Elizabeth Eliza and Robert Edward , in his absence . |
| 30 | John McGhee had to give up his job to help his wife Jo look after her elderly mother and two sons who have learning disabilities . |