Example sentences of "that was her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbours , the show that was her launch pad , might have to be jettisoned . |
| 2 | Maggie gazed at the twenty-foot-long boat that was her father 's main source of livelihood . |
| 3 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 4 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 5 | Toni Halliday , the group 's charismatic vocalist , absent today , is probably still recovering from the nightmare that was her first band , State Of Play . |
| 6 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 7 | Dinah sat placidly beside Paul , aware that the bruised turmoil that was her body had subsided into a kind of contentment . |
| 8 | ‘ You approached Miss Needham , repeated Markby evenly , ‘ whether or not you knew at the time that was her name , and you asked her to sign . |
| 9 | The trial continued without her after the judge , Mr Justice Latham , was satisfied that was her wish and she was capable of instructing her lawyers . |
| 10 | Finally , in a movement of panic that was her body 's scream , she dragged up her leaden hands to smash the invaders from her head . |
| 11 | As she gazed intently towards the small group that was her family , a great sadness filled Beth 's heart . |
| 12 | She told men this , with the lift and flutter of the eyelashes that was her trademark . |
| 13 | the house that was her lair coming awake |
| 14 | He washed his face in the perfume that was her love for him . |
| 15 | He stared at the sooty-looking ball of black chaos that was her hair , wanting her , terrified of her . |
| 16 | Emilia was tallow-pale , a frail parcel of flesh , shedding a life that was her own and not her own . |
| 17 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a bruise , ’ he told her curtly , releasing her hair as she pulled away from him defensively , the inner disturbance that was her inevitable response to his lightest touch suddenly infuriating her . |
| 19 | Now when my mother flies in from Vancouver she barely recognizes the city that was her home for nearly 40 years . |
| 20 | She wanted to stay here , the place that was her idea of heaven — Fen 's arms . |
| 21 | But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home . |