Example sentences of "her [noun sg] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum flopped down in her chair and did n't say a word but by her look I could see I would suffer for it later . |
| 2 | I ca n't see her in the dark , but from the hushed swell of her breathing I could draw you the map of her body . |
| 3 | It is particularly ironic , then , that the next lady to whom Wilekin must plead , Dame Sirith , does heed his perseverance in pleading , which includes some good courtly motifs : ( " Unless she changes her mind I shall go mad with sorrow or kill myself . " ) |
| 4 | ‘ When Janice comes back from her tea I can hand over here . ’ |
| 5 | Now Mrs Pearson was most kind to me over the sale of the house — indeed , but for her kindness I would probably never have got it . |
| 6 | Drawing upon her work I would suggest the following guidelines for improving co-operation : |
| 7 | In her place I would have been not only up the wall but out of the door ! |
| 8 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 9 | Why such a bizarre notion should have entered her head I can not imagine , but I did not like to disillusion her , so I told her what I could . |
| 10 | Sure enough , when I manipulated her hip joints while she was still fast asleep from her anaesthetic I could almost pull the balls out of the sockets . |
| 11 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe if I got her outfit I 'd get her husky voice to match ? |
| 13 | Once she was out of her chair I should not like to keep her hanging about , and I can always make straight for the Ladies at Harvey Nicholls [ sic ] . |
| 14 | Her song I Will Always Love You is already heading towards selling one million records and the prestigious Christmas No. 1 spot brings the added bonus of thousands of extra sales . |
| 15 | ‘ I walked round her bed I could see her lying face up under the bedclothes , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I even knew that if we talked about her past and all her life I might begin to like her , but I was thinking of a different countryside and different cattle and worrying about the oxen who ploughed the fields and turned the water wheels . |
| 17 | As I sat in the graceful room looking at Mrs Rumney , cool , poised , tranquil , with the little white creature resting on her knee I could n't help feeling how right and fitting the whole scene was . |
| 18 | that cracks the walnuts in her hand I 'd like to see somebody do that |
| 19 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ For the sake of her memory I would n't have hesitated to bring you crashing down from that pedestal if I 'd discovered anything damning about you . ’ |
| 21 | If it was definitely linked to her death I might have to break a promise — which I 'd hate doing because the repercussions for the crew could be very serious — but it 's too vague to go to Foucard and run risks with other people 's livelihoods . ’ |
| 22 | Had she insisted that I apply leeches to her son I could not have felt more disturbed , more unwilling to assist at this medieval rite . |