Example sentences of "her [noun] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roddick claims that the answers to such bizarre questions tend to be very revealing and she can usually judge whether an applicant is going to be somebody who is on her wavelength and with whom she can comfortably work . |
| 2 | But it was n't Tony 's image that slipped past her defences and into her dreams . |
| 3 | The nurse 's individual accountability is to her patients first , but additionally to her managers , her employers and to her profession . |
| 4 | But he did n't come , either to her apartment or to her office . |
| 5 | So we might say my friend Ellen Blair , or the former chairman Ellen Blair , or a nurse in the ward called Ellen Blair , giving , in some sense , ‘ credentials ’ for her existence and for her relationship to the speaker who is responsible for introducing her into the conversation . |
| 6 | It ran over Gwendoline 's shoe , up her stocking and above her knee . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , in America , there was Patti Smith , fully fledged cult idol and female rock star whose own heroes were largely male ( Morrison , Richards , Jagger , Rimbaud ) and whose sexuality was ambivalent in her look and in her poems and music . |
| 8 | He held her shoulders and through her cries of anguish she heard Fernando 's sudden worried question . |
| 9 | The blanket settled over her shoulders and around her cold bare arms . |
| 10 | There the police said that Lucy Chamberlain had been identified after the shooting by documents in her handbag and by her distinctive clothing ; clothing later confirmed by her father in a telephone call from the police . |
| 11 | An image of Green 's bared head as he looked down at Harriet 's body came into her mind and of his face and expression . |
| 12 | Beth remembered it all as though it was only yesterday ; it was etched on her mind and in her heart for all time . |
| 13 | She has little in her mind or in her mouth other than platitudes . |
| 14 | She felt his eyes as if he had actually touched her , and a dull flush spread up her neck and into her cheeks . |
| 15 | The tremor that had spread through her neck and from her neck , told her so . |
| 16 | He hurried to her aid and between them they managed to half-carry Miss Merchiston from the room . |
| 17 | It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws . |
| 18 | There was salt on her lips and in her hair , and a fine white film covered her limbs , stiffening the skin . |
| 19 | Maggie knew the source of her own fear : in her anger she had so nearly , so very nearly , launched herself into the air , growling a dragon 's fury , sparks flying not from her eyes but from her mouth , raining blows from above , hovering over the teacher like St Michael over the devil . |
| 20 | Jay 's fleeting lust metamorphosed — practically — into interest and friendship ; sometimes on the way home , lyrically drunk and alone , she would fantasise about kissing Lucy , stroking the fine lines etched around her eyes and on her brow , nuzzling into her throat and shoulders … . |
| 21 | As she felt his hands travel across her body , she closed her eyes and with them her mind . |
| 22 | They have move from the rock into her eyes and into her head and so they are hers . |
| 23 | Life had been-kind to her and there were few lines on her face , except in the corners of her eyes and around her swanlike neck just beneath the chin . |
| 24 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 25 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 26 | Then the icy touch of the water reminded her that she had planned to cool the hock in it for Finn and the bastard was n't here ; and for a moment her towel served as a handkerchief as she mourned , and then , since she considered it degrading to weep for a faithless man , she dried her eyes and her ears and under her chin and returned with springing step to the cottage . |
| 27 | She 'd showered and lightened her hair , clipped gold in her ears and at her throat , slid into a renaissance shirt and pants of soft silk and called a cab . |
| 28 | She had black hair and great stormy black eyes , and there was gold at her ears and round her neck . |
| 29 | Stella moved , and as the light caught her Merrill noticed that on the fine tanned skin there was an etching of small lines at the corners of her mouth and around her eyes , but she was still a very beautiful woman . |
| 30 | She thought bitterly of the spots she of ten got at the comers of her mouth or across her forehead . |