Example sentences of "her [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and with her kind of background in , in writing up training package , packages and things |
| 2 | She likes advice with her kind of spin on it and brisk meetings with those most closely involved . |
| 3 | A new paperback edition of Maeve Kelly 's first novel — an urgent , provocative story of a woman 's escape from the claustrophobia of provincial family life and her baptism of fire into the feminist movement , working for a battered women 's refuge . |
| 4 | A subsequent search and investigation of her papers , such as they were , revealed a very large cargo of brandy in the hold , damning correspondence with the ships ' agent in Belgium , and some unconvincing reasons for her change of destination from Sweden to Spain . |
| 5 | He realized her change of mood without understanding its cause and was obviously loath to let her go . |
| 6 | It was little wonder that he sounded loath to believe her change of heart at this stage , and she wanted desperately to convince him , but how ? |
| 7 | She sniffed haughtily , gathering her shreds of dignity about her as best she could . |
| 8 | She placed her parcel of butter on the floor of the barn and then raced across the field towards the bushes . |
| 9 | In general it can be said that he sought to maximise France 's role , and her freedom of choice in any given situation . |
| 10 | She also sought , of course , the more usual and natural means of escape and fantasy , such as the watching of advertisements , the reading of fiction , and the spinning of self-indulgent romances , but her experience of life as a child was so narrow that she had no way of telling the possible from the absurd . |
| 11 | Their effectiveness as a resource depends on the range of purposes to which the learner discovers they may be put from his or her experience of interaction with other speakers . |
| 12 | A neighbouring case , which Elisabeth took into her field of vision without moving , was devoted to three Hispana Moresque plates showing three different views of the synagogue at Toledo . |
| 13 | The life of the camp consumed their married life , oppressed her from her hour of waking until the time she fell asleep . |
| 14 | Twenty-four years ago , when my daughter was three , I remember reading Margaret Drabble 's book The Garrick year and falling with gratitude and a shock of recognition on her description of life with a small baby . |
| 15 | Her acts of cruelty towards me were never mentioned . |
| 16 | She fingered her necklace of shards of antler . |
| 17 | Her wisps of belief in an after-life had deserted her irrevocably with the flying bomb . |
| 18 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 19 | I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) . |
| 20 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 21 | La Fontaine , in her review of studies of British kinship suggests that there seems to be ‘ a preference for particular siblings rather than a general solidarity with brothers and sisters ’ ( La Fontaine , 1985 , p. 54 ) . |
| 22 | Editor , — In her review of methods of assessing students Stella Lowry argues the need for methods of assessment that match learning objectives . |
| 23 | , our recently-appointed Evaluation Officer , has now begun her programme of visits to schools , colleges , and training centres . |
| 24 | Similarly , in her study of variation between the conditional , imperfect subjunctive , present indicative and future indicative in the verbs of si clauses in Buenos Aires Spanish , Lavandera developed a set of interview questions ( for example , ‘ Under what conditions would you feel happier than you presently are ? ’ ) which succeeded in eliciting a high proportion of clauses expressing unreal conditions ( Lavandera 1975 ; 1978a ; 1982 ) . |
| 25 | She had objected , and she was suspended , Mrs Laughton herself was told that her suitability as a Panel Member would be reconsidered at the end of her term of office in May . |
| 26 | Because of her fear of loss of control , her essential helplessness , any control that is less than complete is no control at all . |
| 27 | But the others were plainly endorsing her vote of thanks to their host rather than paying tribute to the newly-discovered ‘ communautaire ’ qualities of the Iron Lady . |
| 28 | Whatever their relations had been in life , this was no sacred invitation , since it coincided with her loss of faith in the consolations of religion . |
| 29 | To that must be added her loss of earnings throughout her life in her chosen occupation . |
| 30 | Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace . |