Example sentences of "her [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she does have the merit , in contrast to the majority of researchers , of making the distinction between an inner state and an outward act , her definitions do not emerge as analytic categories to be employed for comparative purposes — mainly because they do not avoid the problem of reification , raised below . |
| 2 | When , however , we examine her definitions and her evidence we find that the differences she discovers in performance skills are no more than differences in explicitness , of the kind noted by Labov . |
| 3 | While her investigations take her into history and communication networks , one sequence in particular carries metafictional implications . |
| 4 | ‘ I was wondering ’ — single-minded , Molly pursued her investigations — ‘ you must know my landlord quite well … ? ’ |
| 5 | But assisting her investigations into a perfectly natural death as if it were murder was little short of lunacy . |
| 6 | She was on the point of telling him about her investigations but it was all so uncertain and there was no point in raising false hopes . |
| 7 | Its worst loss of nerve was over a Channel 4 programme MI5 's Official Secrets in which Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 case officer responsible for surveillance of the peace movement , alleged that her investigations into CND had been passed on to government ministers for party-political use . |
| 8 | He could n't really think that she would stop her investigations just because of a few threats ? |
| 9 | A faint tug of reluctant approval accompanied her investigations into colours and patterns . |
| 10 | ‘ I told you , ’ said Sally-Anne , exasperated by his probing , annoyed that he had seen through her whoppers . |
| 11 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 12 | Marlin had not been pleased to know that one of her ex-lovers had attempted to play hero in his own apartment , and he would n't have been happy to find her making contact with Gentle at two in the morning . |
| 13 | It was a familiar feeling from her shifts on the emergency ward . |
| 14 | As a multi-skilled employee , her shifts involve chemical analysis , production monitoring and work as a colourist . |
| 15 | She was identified with the planet Venus and thought to be the daughter of the sky god , for another of her epithets is Mistress of the Sky . |
| 16 | While Germany spends 40% of her tax revenue on social security , Germans have been dismayed to observe a significant increase in homelessness and destitution on the streets of her cities , especially the rich western cities like Stuttgart and Munich . |
| 17 | Thanks to the Empire 's support , Kislev has never fallen , although many of her cities have suffered devastation at the hands of the Chaos Hordes . |
| 18 | The emotional distance felt by the mother will affect all of her interactions with the child . |
| 19 | Then we tried to link all of this with the strategies the teacher was actually observed to use in her interactions with children elsewhere in the room . |
| 20 | Through her interactions with children in response to their work , the teacher also models processes of actively listening to and responding to ideas , questioning , exploring and sharing which the children will then be able to use for themselves . |
| 21 | Through her interactions with the children , the teacher is engaged in a continual process of crafting and recrafting the environment , building on their existing collaborative resources , and gradually extending the range of collaboration which children choose and are able to engage in by themselves . |
| 22 | Unfortunately we do not have a detailed , turn-by-turn transcription of her interactions , but it is reasonable to assume that her linguistic accommodation was preceded by an assessment of how her interlocutor might be expected to talk ; in other words , that Sue 's assumption of a persona would be mediated through a stereotype of the linguistic behaviour of the group to which she felt her customer belonged . |
| 23 | 5 If you wonder how someone like Sam Fifield-Hall ( page 87 ) keeps her flagstones looking polished , here 's a tip : detergent and heavy steam-cleaning wash away the glow with the dirt , so Sam suggests a quick once-over with a broom , then a soft-shoe shuffle in sheepskin slippers . |
| 24 | We were to be her guardians . |
| 25 | His poem ‘ Maud ’ is said to be about her and reveals how his advances , as the son of a country parson , were not approved of by her guardians . |
| 26 | The young Margaret 's claims and the authority of her guardians had never been too highly regarded by the powerful Bruces , lords of Annandale and Carrick . |
| 27 | Her third single — SAW 's version of her old favourite , Little Eva 's ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , — had soared to the number two slot maintaining her record of getting her releases in the top two . |
| 28 | Repetition is likewise the musician practising her scales until she can be consistent every time , so that while she performs she can think about the music itself rather than the individual notes . |
| 29 | Ellen was polishing the furniture with beeswax , but collected her cloths and went out of the room wordlessly when Paul entered , shutting the door after her . |
| 30 | The waitress reckons her cloths |