Example sentences of "on her [noun sg] [be] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And there on her stern was the port of registry .
2 On her head was a hat that looked as if someone had dropped a large meringue on her head .
3 On her head was a large Russian hat of the same fur , and on her right hand a muff .
4 Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus .
5 She writes letters ; propped up on her dresser is a postcard from Greece , sent by an amnesic pen pal who began to correspond after spying Debbie on the Brass Tacks programme .
6 But they both had shields against which the lances struck , and the beauty of it was that on her shield was the insignia of the sun , on his that of the moon ; so they were each protected by the principle they opposed .
7 The tears on her face were a different colour now .
8 When the lights came up the girl looked at the audience , her mouth slowly opened and on her face was an expression of incredulity .
9 On her wrist was the name Coyle but on the ankle was the name Bursey .
10 But his comment on her age was a throwaway one , it seemed , for he followed it up with a reference to his previous question by asking , ‘ Are you an only child ? ’
11 On her left was a thin , grey-haired woman with deep lines between her eyes and curving past the sides of her mouth .
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