Example sentences of "her [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the while icy fingers were touching the back of her neck-ghostly reminders of the past . |
| 2 | At first the information lack had been due to an instinctive veering away from the man who had caused her so much hurt and distress , but now it was more a matter of her rarely spending money on a paper and not having a television . |
| 3 | nurse at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , and friend of Mrs Gamp 's , whom she closely resembles in her slatternly ways , brutal behaviour towards patients , and ignorance of elementary nursing procedure . |
| 4 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 5 | her too-much hair , her too-much flesh , |
| 6 | The mystery came as Di returned home from one of her worst-ever holidays . |
| 7 | " 'E don' give her much peace , do 'e ? |
| 8 | Not that , standing square in front of her , his expression brooking no refusal , he was giving her much choice . |
| 9 | An aggressive self-publicist , her inflamed prose brought her much notoriety . |
| 10 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 11 | Do you not see her much Jean ? |
| 12 | My wife is a trained typist , but her job does not leave her much time . |
| 13 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 14 | what she was getting at , she knew exactly what she was shopping for , she went into that shop , there was the list , it was handed in , I bet it took her less time to shop then , than it did later when she went shopping with a vague idea well I must n't forget this , I must n't forget that , but then the wandering around sort of oh that looks nice and I fancy that |
| 15 | She wore no make-up and no rings on her freckly hands . |
| 16 | There were no jobs advertised locally so she wrote a letter to the head librarian , sending her C V. There were still no jobs available , so Susan offered her services voluntarily when the library was moving a section to another part of the building . |
| 17 | DEVON youngster Lucie Ahl recorded her best-ever victory after beating American Patti O'Reilly 7–5 6–2 in the first round of the Wimbledon qualifying tournament at Roehampton . |
| 18 | Josephine Chandler was found half naked and bleeding after the attack , which left her permanently brain damaged and physically disabled . |
| 19 | Paid her yesterday Albert . |
| 20 | ‘ We saw her yesterday afternoon and though she is still getting treatment she is better . ’ |
| 21 | I said I had a damn good go at her yesterday afternoon ! |
| 22 | ‘ You only met her yesterday morning and she was dead before dinner . ’ |
| 23 | I was trying to find the place we met her yesterday morning when I heard you shouting and the sounds of ambush so I rode to investigate . ’ |
| 24 | taking her home Sarah ! |
| 25 | Why should I meekly sit down and take her schoolmistressly primness like a naughty boy . |
| 26 | Her last quarterly gas bill , one which covered the winter months , cost her nearly £60 , £5 per week . |
| 27 | She did n't seem too pleased even when Gloria gave her both pots of jam . |
| 28 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 29 | Fenna might have given her both appetite and menstruation in his parting , but neither of them seemed as though they were worth the effort . |
| 30 | Were those dark eyes that were gazing down at her really Guido 's ? |