Example sentences of "her [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At only 19 oz doctors gave her little hope . |
| 2 | Constance , as was her wont , had paid her little attention , but her brothers had taken fright . |
| 3 | That was why her mother had this outlandish name of which she was so proud and which Alexandra had tried to keep from her few childhood friends . |
| 4 | Toby imagined Penny as a girl of infinitely greater experience and sophistication than himself , though , in looking back on her four years at Bedford College and her half year of unemployment thereafter , Penny could only be struck by the slim amount of worldly knowledge gained , the fleeting , unsatisfactory nature of the relationships formed . |
| 5 | Sir Tim Bell is thought to have suggested to ITV 's watchdog body that her This Morning interview should be pre-recorded . |
| 6 | The touch of his fingers gave her such pleasure , that , scowling , she coughed all the way back to the theatre . |
| 7 | Finally , to show she did not hate the woman who had caused her such bitterness , she replanted the flowers herself , and cleaned the muddy gravestone , so that the words could be read clearly . |
| 8 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 9 | Molly Pargeter , a woman of forty , whose hair was kept in place with difficulty , might have looked like one of the larger Graces in the paintings she admired had not her size caused her such embarrassment that she lowered her head and stooped a little as she walked . |
| 10 | Because it was n't just Ross 's non-appearance that was causing her such distress . |
| 11 | She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction . |
| 12 | What did she have that gave her such power over him ? |
| 13 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 14 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 15 | She was to get her latter requirement quicker than she realised , she discovered . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher 's been told to shut-up by her former press secretary . |
| 17 | Knowing that she was used to entertaining the new man in her life in her bedroom , her former bedmate slipped into the house while she was away and hid a stick of dynamite between the mattress and the bed springs . |
| 18 | Suddenly , frustratingly , Lindsey found that all trace of her former tiredness had vanished . |
| 19 | But a factory job was out because she could not stand the noise , and her preference for a more intellectual activity ‘ is rather pitiful in view of the girl 's lack of general education and the nature of her former illness ’ . |
| 20 | Yet , on the day when Harriet saw her off on Penzance station she was afraid that the new way of life Liza had now embarked upon would prove very far removed from that which she had spent under the dedicated care of her former headmistress , Miss Everett . |
| 21 | Particularly eminent nowadays are her former tutor , Ian Brownie , now Chichele Professor of Public International law at Oxford , David Williams , now Vice Chancellor of Cambridge , and also John Smith , now Professor Smith , CBE , QC , LLD , FBA , and recently retired from the Department . |
| 22 | Her former tutor at St Hugh 's is shocked by the news that she 's now on hunger strike . |
| 23 | It was entitled ‘ Can Britain recover her former glory ? ’ |
| 24 | It 'll be the first time she 's voted against the government and her former deputy Geoffrey says she 's guilty of disloyalty . |
| 25 | When they moved to Althorp in 1975 on the death of their grandfather , the 7th Earl , Charles said goodbye to every room and Diana today still revisits her former home , even though it has been turned into a Cheshire Home holiday hotel for the disabled . |
| 26 | Their names and background are known to their neighbours in Baldersdale but they are very anxious to avoid as much as possible becoming involved in the publicity which continually surrounds Hannah and hope that interest in her former home will eventually decline and disappear However , they have agreed to reveal their detailed plans for Low Birk Hatt and they are calculated to please the most critical defender of Dales traditions . |
| 27 | She went round to her former home in Hardwicke , Gloucestershire , where she was beaten unconscious by Probyn , who put her back into her Renault 19 car took her to the River and some how pushed her in . |
| 28 | Chapman had been convicted in her absence at an earlier hearing of abandoning the rat and causing unnecessary suffering to a domestic pet between October 23 and 29 at her former home in Streatham . |
| 29 | John Morgan , her former driver , says Stompie died in Mrs Mandela 's Soweto home , that she led the assault on him and other youths with a sjambok ( rhino hide whip ) and then ordered him to dispose of the body . |
| 30 | It is no coincidence that Bessmertnova is the wife of the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , and that this is probably her last chance to turn her former reputation into hard currency . |