Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |
| 2 | Chesarynth turned round guiltily , so fast that she almost overbalanced , her toe catching in her hem . |
| 3 | The string that had once been fastened lightly round her toe had tightened during the years of marriage , slowly tightened into a leash . |
| 4 | Which supermodel is featured in the book having her toe sucked by Madonna ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Suddenly her preserve has been violated . |
| 7 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 8 | I can not understand where her weakness comes from . |
| 9 | While her investigations take her into history and communication networks , one sequence in particular carries metafictional implications . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As a multi-skilled employee , her shifts involve chemical analysis , production monitoring and work as a colourist . |
| 12 | There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists whether this indicated hunting or scavenging , but Ruby told us that she and her kind stayed as far as possible away from these large animals , for the freshly expired bodies were invariably surrounded by hyenas and big cats . |
| 13 | Pray God that her fancy prove untrue ! — he was immured in one of those gruesome buildings where only ready money could save its unwilling patrons from abject penury . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She knows nothing , she insists , and was ‘ shocked ’ when the police pounded on her door in the middle of the night to tell her that her ex-husband had been killed . |
| 16 | Her ex-husband had walked out one day for unspecified reasons , never to be seen again . |
| 17 | By the time I moved in with Lucy and Joe , she 'd been divorced for a couple of years and her ex-husband had emigrated to America . |
| 18 | Mrs Jones claims she saw her ex-husband crouching at the foot of the bed with a makeshift gas chamber … a box fixed to a length of piping . |
| 19 | Porsche Cars North America says the woman was sitting in the car with a friend when her ex-husband opened fire . |
| 20 | At last her opportunity arose when Collin Brooks , a friend of both Eliot and her own family , suggested that she apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary which had fallen vacant . |
| 21 | of the proceeds of the sale of the property , which means that his or her opportunity to purchase something more appropriate is diminished . |
| 22 | It was her opportunity to escape from this crazy and possibly dangerous game of let's pretend . |
| 23 | Her various leadership positions had already given her opportunity to meet people of power and influence , but she was not so blase that she was n't delighted to be going to Buckingham Palace . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 25 | Merlyn said : ‘ For heaven 's sake , Philippe , tell her Ben did n't do any such thing . ’ |
| 26 | Nonetheless , sometimes her enthusiasm seemed to jar . |
| 27 | Her enthusiasm had been infectious . |
| 28 | She used to say that Christmas Eve was her favourite day of the year , and her enthusiasm added to the delight of anticipation . |
| 29 | Her enthusiasm lit up her face , giving it a beautiful purity — the face which had caused her shame . |
| 30 | Her enthusiasm did not , however , encompass all the complexities that would be involved in such a project , from researching the fabric to preparing special screens for printing and educating machinists to make up the dresses in a traditional way . |