Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer , who was troubled that the Lake District was losing its local population , put her case as follows : |
| 2 | Barbara takes off her shirt and wraps a blue chiffon nightie around her waist ; while Elena is in the loo , she opens her purse and shows me a picture of her six-year-old daughter . |
| 3 | So , like Prince Charles and thousands of less well known amateur artists , Kylie now sits at her easel and loses herself in another world . |
| 4 | It is probably her presence that encourages the children to compare the size of the dolls and to talk about things they notice as they play . |
| 5 | The boy , aware of Mme Picard 's frequently expressed view , deliberately exploits her presence and asks his mother 's permission to read a particular and notorious novel . |
| 6 | She pushes her hair back , squeezing out the water , takes her t-shirt and rubs her arms , her shoulders , then pulls it over her head , great dark patches spreading on the blue cotton . |
| 7 | They diss whatever takes their fancy , while ‘ the mole ’ flicks her hair and wears lots of silly outfits — just like on photo shoots . |
| 8 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 9 | A Bosnian baby with just three months to live has arrived in Britain and been rushed straight to hospital.Adisa Blagiyach has a tumour on her heart and has been brought to this country for life-saving surgery . |
| 10 | Menzies states her hypothesis as follows : |
| 11 | Jo sees the theatre as the natural direction for her talent and has recently formed her own theatre company . |
| 12 | A derelict ship turns over on her keel and lies gracefully at rest , but there is only one way up for a Thames barge if she is to maintain her dignity . |
| 13 | Until Rainbow spins her wheel and hurtles towards towards them . |
| 14 | She grabs her handbag and rushes along the landing , and she falls — so hard , they say , that she has a nasty long wound on the back of her head . |
| 15 | Stanley sees through her facade and sees her as a threat to his marriage , and his affection for Stella . |
| 16 | She came to St Bartholomew 's Hospital to be operated on , but it 's her mind that interests me . |
| 17 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 18 | When she changes her mind and decides to call a family confab instead , hotel manager Chuck Wilmot , fresh from his last assertiveness training course , ca n't believe his luck . |
| 19 | If the woman has asked him to stop , if she has changed her mind and does n't want to go through with with the action o of intercourse or whatever , then the man should stop . |
| 20 | In the hall she wraps a long scarf round her neck and puts on a cream-coloured quilted cotton jacket , with wide shoulders and inset sleeves , and lets herself out by the front door . |
| 21 | It travels down her neck and hits the top of her left lung , which collapses . |
| 22 | In some ways Alison seems very cool about her condition and has remained detached from the experiences she is describing . |
| 23 | An object slides off the bed on her side and falls to the floor with a thump . |
| 24 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 25 | And when she clutches at her side and complains of a slight ache you lean forward solicitously and ask , ‘ Are you all right , my darling ? ’ |
| 26 | She is still agile but is unable to control her bladder and has anaemia and a recurring chest problem . |
| 27 | Barbara takes off her shirt and wraps a blue chiffon nightie around her waist ; while Elena is in the loo , she opens her purse and shows me a picture of her six-year-old daughter . |
| 28 | It 's fine if she 's got seriously involved with her lover and wants to leave you anyway . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , as we have seen , such an approach suggests a more complete , less messy and more fundamental change at the time of her study than seems to be justified by the continuing history of the 1970s . |
| 30 | She says , ‘ I 'll bring your duvet in a minute , ’ and she slips into her bedroom and shuts the door . |