Example sentences of "her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all . |
| 2 | Her imagined scenario was : Anne : Are you doing anything tonight ? |
| 3 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 4 | Lou had allowed her coal-black hair to grow into a softer , more feminine style that flattered her small features . |
| 5 | No merchant ship is likely to argue with HMS Gloucester , with her 4.5 inch radar controlled gun , Sea Dart missiles , and helicopter armament . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shakespeare referred to her three-fold nature in A Midsummer Night 's Dream : |
| 8 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |
| 9 | she remained hidden from her cruel stepmother , knowing that one day her prince will come , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a mor as memorable as the songs that fill the movie |
| 10 | Her cruel circumstances conspired to put her into a remand home at 14 — and from there she went to an adolescent unit , until the age of 17 . |
| 11 | Before she died , she wrote another book — The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — about a woman who left her cruel husband . |
| 12 | ‘ She was very frightened of her cruel husband , but she suspected that he was responsible for Sir Charles ’ death . |
| 13 | She imagined Merlyn watching with her cruel eyes and Oliver being silently attentive and Cobalt quietly playing whatever game he was playing . |
| 14 | ‘ Was n't there something about a princess locked up by her cruel father ? ’ she hazarded . |
| 15 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 16 | Her inherent sense of duty insisted that , whatever the risks , whatever the dangers , she must speak . |
| 17 | She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other . |
| 18 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 19 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 20 | She had been a regular person once , but that had been before the voices started up in her head , before the dead woman got out of her rocking chair , before the preacherman reached into her mind and gave it a sharp twist … |
| 21 | If Papandreou wishes to continue her righteous quest , she should go back into the smoke-filled rooms of the Bâtiment Berlaymont and re-package her proposals rationally . |
| 22 | But none of them upstage Stella , the blonde lead singer already battling those patronising Primitives/Darling Buds comparisons , and physically assaulting her fellow band members , monitors and mic stands in her righteous over-enthusiasm . |
| 23 | Enough to know that her righteous indignation would fade under the realisation that no malice had been intended and no real harm done . |
| 24 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 25 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 26 | Susanna Hoffs strolls across her posh hotel room and shakes hands . |
| 27 | And her posh accent was sufficiently artificial to be laughed at , where a more natural intonation would have alienated audiences . |
| 28 | On her odd nights off she still managed to keep some of the barracks satisfied . |
| 29 | Phena , despite her odd ways , does not deserve to be hurt further , does not deserve to have it all dragged up and dissected . ’ |
| 30 | He looked at her odd appearance and then frowned . |