Example sentences of "her [noun] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was wearing a tight black mini-dress , and her hair was a dark cloud around her beautiful face , the eyes made to look even larger by skilful dark blue make-up . |
| 32 | Her hair was the same bright copper glow , and yet , below it , her face had collapsed in heavy folds , like cloth . |
| 33 | She peered anxiously into her six-foot-wide dressing-table mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last auburn tint , and found to her satisfaction that all her hair was the same improbable shade . |
| 34 | Her hair was the plaything of the rough breeze as she ran towards him and he caught his breath . |
| 35 | Her hair was the colour of sand , flat and smooth around her head . |
| 36 | Her skin looked luminous , her hair was the colour of the pale amber beads Aunt Emily always wore because she said they helped her rheumatism . |
| 37 | Her hair was the most beautiful thing about her . |
| 38 | Her story was a fascinating one . |
| 39 | If her story was the truth , I can think of only one reason why she did n't come forward right away . |
| 40 | Yet the heartening aspect of her story was the way Diana had come to terms with her life and how , with the help of friends and counsellors , she was finding her true nature . |
| 41 | Alongside her cabin was a hanging locker . |
| 42 | Her skin was a pale coffee colour . |
| 43 | Her skin was a pale olive colour but absolutely clear and her magnificent eyes gave her face all the definition it needed . |
| 44 | Her skin was the colour of thick , pale cream of the kind that often accompanies that particular shade of dark red hair . |
| 45 | He suspected her existence was an obscenity . |
| 46 | Her response was a sudden flush of heat and a clutch of desire that abruptly tightened her stomach muscles . |
| 47 | For some years Emily had kept a number of English sheep dogs or ‘ bobtails ’ and her favourite was a small one which she called ‘ Bobbie ’ . |
| 48 | But her favourite was a book called The Golden Windows , a Sunday School prize of her mother 's . |
| 49 | Despite her alleged impatience to hear about his experiences during the pay-off , she made no attempt to refer to it again , launching instead into a blow-by-blow account of a film she had seen the previous evening , going on to explain that she loved films , really loved them , that the only place to see them properly was the cinema , that her favourite was a wonderful old place in the centre of town called the Minerva , and what a shame it was that no one went to the cinema any more . |
| 50 | Her favourite was the coffee shop in Fenwicks in Bond Street for this was the haunt and the meeting place of all those from the world of fashion . |
| 51 | Her talent was a peculiar one , he commented ambiguously . |
| 52 | Round her shoulders was a crocheted shawl , and over her knees the familiar little cover made from knitted woollen squares . |
| 53 | Her mind was a tangled confusion of fear , regret , apology , and a treacherous yearning still to be held fast against him . |
| 54 | It was a stupid question , but her mind was a blank of panic . |
| 55 | But , however much her body yearned for submission , to let her will melt away in the pleasure Luke 's expert hands could give her , still in the background of her mind was a sense of holding something back . |
| 56 | Momentarily her mind was a confused blank , then , like taking a lens cap from a camera , everything came into clear mental focus . |
| 57 | Gradually she began to analyse her emotions and found , to her surprise , that uppermost in her mind was a feeling of pity for Dawn . |
| 58 | A major problem for those wishing to persuade Mrs Thatcher to change her mind was the time constraint imposed by the leadership election rules . |
| 59 | The least marked to her mind was the Leader . |
| 60 | But predominant in her mind was the unsettling effect her companion seemed to be having on her . |