Example sentences of "her [noun] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had taken a handful of downers with her whisky around 10 a.m. and had woken up in hospital . |
| 2 | LASSIA : Finished fast on her debut over six furlongs in the Newmarket maiden won by Roman Walk . |
| 3 | Elizabeth , of Taunton , Somerset , was working as an advertising executive in Durban and had announced her engagement just three days before her death . |
| 4 | Tacoma Art Museum provided an opportunity to see the work of Faith Ringold : a survey of her work over 25 years and an opportunity to hear such an important artist speak . |
| 5 | She ran her bath , cut her nails viciously one by one . |
| 6 | Since the death of her fiancé nearly fifty years ago , Buzz had continued to correspond with his mother . |
| 7 | It would bring to £100,000 the amount Greater Glasgow Health Board has paid Anne McWilliams since her accident almost ten years ago , a judge had been told . |
| 8 | Associated reasons for her death were the severe injuries to her nose and mouth , which was broken and swollen , the multiple attempts that had taken place to strangle her and the fact that she also had a large quantity of alcohol in her body about six times the legal level for drivers . |
| 9 | TOPICALLY-NAMED Party Politics , a gift to Mrs Patricia Thompson from her husband only 48 hours before the Martell Grand National , romped home the comfortable winner at Aintree , marking a dramatic change of fortune for trainer Nick Gaselee . |
| 10 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Binged and vomited four times 2–3 Keeping her diary regularly 4 Returned home and told her family about problems with eating 5 Stopped weighing herself so frequently ; binged and vomited three times 6 Ate breakfast for first time 7 Allowed herself to ask for support from friends 8–9 Binged and vomited once each week 10 Expressed her feelings of sadness in the group for the first time 11–12 Ate three regular meals per day ; binges much smaller 13 A week free from bingeing and vomiting 14 A week free from bingeing and vomiting |
| 11 | By that time Maria was forty-two and her bridegroom only thirty-one , but with her usual disregard for red tape , she put down her age as thirty-three at the wedding ceremony . |
| 12 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't buy this , ’ she 'd protested to her cousin just two days ago . |
| 14 | Unable to bear the suspense , Jess tucked her skirts under one arm and clambered up to see herself . |
| 15 | Masklin found Grimma in her school-hole under one of the old sheds , supervizing a class in writing . |
| 16 | And , remarkably , it changed her personality not one whit . |
| 17 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |
| 18 | A mother sought a declaration that the doctors , health authority and Department of Health had no right to provide contraceptive advice and treatment for her children under 16 without parental knowledge and consent . |
| 19 | Having stopped a couple of times for refreshment , Fabia returned to her hotel around six o'clock , and realised that she had found Mariánské Láznë quite enchanting . |
| 20 | On her way back one of her sisters rushed towards her shouting , ‘ Tess ! |
| 21 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 22 | It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows . |
| 23 | Brutus then , a few lines later , claims no knowledge of her death when two of his officers tell him of it ( IV , iii , 141–92 ) . |