Example sentences of "[noun sg] of her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crowe lovingly arranged the wheel of her straw hat to cover her face . |
| 2 | Police withdrew the fine and three penalty points when Nichola , 37 , explained no-one was behind the wheel of her car at the time . |
| 3 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 4 | Fifteen minutes later she was behind the wheel of her car on the out-of-city route . |
| 5 | Elizabeth was slaughtered at the wheel of her boyfriend 's four-wheel-drive truck as she desperately tried to escape . |
| 6 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
| 7 | She looked around for Rosa ; and sighed when Sabina indicated , with a jerk of her head , that she was in her room , and fuming . |
| 8 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 9 | With a peremptory jerk of her head , and a wordless signal of command , Rainbow 's dancing partner orders me out of my subject and into the nearest dark comer . |
| 10 | She glared at himone short , singeing glare of her black eyes , and her hair swinging round the jerk of her head . |
| 11 | Each day I met the furnace of her hate . |
| 12 | At one time , thinking of her childhood , which must have been a grey business , rather like a long , dull , cold Sunday , he had been furious with his father-in-law . |
| 13 | Thinking of her trip to Norfolk on the back of Jack 's bike , Kathleen 's blood ran cold . |
| 14 | Thinking of her sister made her impatient . |
| 15 | When she got home , she felt sad and empty , thinking of her uncle . |
| 16 | And thinking of her gynaecologist , surely such a step could not be taken without his sanction and the idea of asking for this seemed out of the question . |
| 17 | Worry about finding his half of the mortgage must be getting to her , she realised as she left the kitchen , knowing that just thinking of her brother was not going to conjure him home to pay his dues . |
| 18 | Kelly Connor sat on an old garden bench in Dermot 's orchard thinking of her father and the past . |
| 19 | Thinking of her mother , always making the best of things ( or pretending to : when the train began to move she had stopped smiling ) Carrie nearly did cry . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Sally-Anne respectfully , thinking of her mother 's splendid garden , but she also thought that St Jude 's garden was an oasis in the wilderness . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 'm not very clever at coping with unpleasantness — not even from my own relatives , ’ she said , thinking of her aunt . |
| 22 | Betty was here out of the kindness of her heart to minister to a wounded human being . |
| 23 | Never , in all her life , had Lydia gone to bed with anyone out of simple mechanical need and never out of the kindness of her heart . |
| 24 | She is still haunted by the grief of her husband 's death and this causes her to shrink into her own world of deception . |
| 25 | She felt tears blur her vision , she was weary and the grief of her father 's death hung over her like a dark cloud . |
| 26 | She paused by the old flour mill , another landmark of her childhood . |
| 27 | It was an episode of her life she was finished with . |
| 28 | As Rune 's hard , caressing hands slid up and down her body , Gina automatically raised her arms around his neck , her fingers reaching for his hair , winding through its golden thickness , oblivious to everything save the heavy clamouring of her heart , the new-found responses of her senses to Rune 's compelling masculine power . |
| 29 | Instinctively she clung to him , indifferent to everything but the powerful clamouring of her heart , the vibrant response of her senses to the sweet pleasure of his nearness . |
| 30 | On that unhappy note she fell asleep , but the next time she awoke — to the clamouring of her alarm clock — she woke up in more ways than one . |