Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Marshall complained of unlawful sex discrimination and her case went to the European Court of Justice where it was decided that she had been the subject of such unlawful discrimination . |
| 2 | Her sister listened to The Moody Blues , Jay listened to Bob Dylan , Joan Baez , The Kinks : she despised the early , clean-cut Beatles and mods . |
| 3 | Giap 's wife was sentenced to life imprisonment , and died in jail ; her sister went to the guillotine . |
| 4 | Her sister sat in the rocking-chair by the side of the range , her eyes closed and her foot rhythmically working the rocker . |
| 5 | Her foot went into a puddle : the green , algae-filled water slopped up over her trainer . |
| 6 | Even as she died her foot stayed on the accelerator , leaving the wheels spinning in the white sand to carve out a 2ft deep hole . |
| 7 | Her foot slipped on the smooth tiles and a frightened little cry left her lips about one second before Mitch moved like lightning and caught her , his arms tightly around her , holding her close . |
| 8 | But although Enid 's dead she just wo n't lie down , and has an uncanny knack of making her presence felt at the most inconvenient times . |
| 9 | Dorothy Hardisty did not actually take over from Sir Charles Stead as executive director until the outbreak of war , but by then she had already made her presence felt as an able and energetic deputy . |
| 10 | She was fortunate in that her income came from a family trust fund , so Ralph had never been able to get his hands on the capital . |
| 11 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 12 | Her hair flopped on the pillow . |
| 13 | Her hair gleamed like a hastily polished brass pot , its tiny dents reddish brown . |
| 14 | Her long black tresses were to go and her hair restyled with a soft perm . |
| 15 | Her hair flared across the pillow ; there was a triangle of red gold between her narrow thighs ; the Conway pearls lay between her small white breasts . |
| 16 | The intruder was blonde ; her hair shone in a shaft of subdued sunlight from the slatted blind . |
| 17 | For an instant her heart skittered like a pebble over water as he pulled her towards him , his fingers hard against her flesh . |
| 18 | Suddenly her heart ached for the sight of her native country , for the sounds and scents and the voices of her own people . |
| 19 | Her heart thudded with a fierce violence . |
| 20 | Her heart thudded at the voice , and she wondered fleetingly if she was dreaming . |
| 21 | Her heart thudded like a sledge-hammer . |
| 22 | Her heart went to a 57-year-old man , her liver to a baby of eight months , her kidneys to a teenage girl and boy , and her corneas were used to save the sight of two people . |
| 23 | Her heart went into a cartoon clinch : Nothing Else Matters ! |
| 24 | She clutched at these landmarks as her heart soared like a kite , time day and place an anchor to the swooping light of love . |
| 25 | Her heart lurched into an erratic beat . |
| 26 | Her heart lurched with an indefinable longing . |
| 27 | Both eyes opened and her breath rushed out in a small burst of relief as she rolled over on to her back — and her heart slammed to a stop . |
| 28 | Her heart beat in a way she had not been conscious of it beating for many a month and she felt near to tears . |
| 29 | Too late Polly realised that her words were open to a very different interpretation from the one she intended , and her heart sank as the woman 's face creased into a hard-edged cynical smile . |
| 30 | She simply nodded , but her heart sank at the prospect implied by his cold clipped tones . |