Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] of her " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
| 2 | She heard his step on the floor , and then his hands warm on her own , moving them just a little , and then on her feet , pulling them further from under the brown wool folds of her skirt . |
| 3 | These too had become smudged with dirt , and the velvet cuffs of her coat , and everything in the compartment was flecked with specks of greasy black which came off on to you the moment you touched them . |
| 4 | As she lay listening to the sound of the grown-ups ’ laughter coming through the wall , Dot felt round the sharp tin edges of her victory brooch still pinned to her cardigan front and remembered how Gloria had once said you 'd always be safe in a place like this . |
| 5 | The Dawn of Dreams had been a family affair ; the producer 's credit was for Robert Forbes , Jo 's father and Lorna 's husband , who sat beside his wife , his long , elegant legs half-hidden in the ultramarine satin folds of her skirt . |
| 6 | My own earliest memories of Winnie , stretch back to the days when — following in the tennis footsteps of her mother , Winifred Mason , who became Scottish champion twice , she was winning British junior championships titles . |
| 7 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 8 | In the 2 1/2-year-old tapes , a man believed most likely to be bachelor James Gilbey is heard calling Di ‘ Squidgy ’ and ‘ Darling ’ as the Princess talks of her torment . |
| 9 | She rubbed at her arms , chafing the cotton sleeves of her blouse . |
| 10 | Ashi found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief as she watched the threshing legs of her daughter . |
| 11 | A breeze sprang up , playfully teasing the chestnut curls of her hair so that they fluttered and tumbled against the banner . |
| 12 | Her rigidity , the granite outcrops of her joyless faith were part of the scenery of their lives : they simply went round them . |
| 13 | It is clear that she will never marry and have children , follow a career enjoy the leisure interests of her own age group or otherwise enjoy the quality of life which so many take for granted . |
| 14 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 15 | Irritated by Viola 's habit of slipping into cliches from the West End plays of her youth every time feeling was called for , Greg said : ‘ You 'd seen her earlier in the evening , had n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | There are , of course , differences in temperament and speed of learning between infants even at this early stage , as well as differences in reaction to stimuli and in state of alertness — but any mother will acknowledge the change observable in behaviour patterns of her child during its first week of life . |
| 17 | Plenty of publicity shots of her mother singing , I suppose , plus holiday snaps and studio poses of all the clan , backtracking as far along the time-lines as the parvenu art of photography can carry us . |
| 18 | She remembered the Sunday mornings of her girlhood , and sang : ‘ Oh sun and moon … |
| 19 | This is only her second film — her first , Rue Cases Nègres , was a stunning portrait of life in the sugar plantations of her native Martinique ( and would have been hard to beat as NI 's Film of the Year for 1983 if we 'd chosen one then ) . |
| 20 | He could n't touch her , she really was too young ; he imagined the pale peach cheeks of her child 's cunt and the runny sweetness inside , and thought he might duck back to the hut and toss himself off . |
| 21 | The Celtic fields ; Iron Age and Roman farms , all still detectable from the air ; the Dark Age village along the river bank with its ghostly , ghastly cemetery on the hill where a woman was buried alive and her skeletal fingers dug into the rough chalk sides of her grave ; nearby Winchester , the old Saxon capital ; the warpath at the top of my lane ; the mill I live in , founded in the days of Alfred 's great grandson , and reinforcements for the Conqueror 's victorious army trotting past the site of our bus shelter . |
| 22 | It was , said Mrs Thatcher , when she informed Cabinet colleagues of her decision to stand down , a ‘ funny old world ’ in which a Prime Minister with her record of electoral success should find it necessary to resign . |
| 23 | This lesson cost 7 Dons , but no actual money is exchanged — Nara builds up credit by offering other scheme members skills of her own . |
| 24 | She was not miserable ; she certainly was not coerced into her life style ( quite the contrary , her family made considerable effort to dissuade her , and even the Church authorities of her time were not encouraging ) ; she was not psychopathic , in the sense that she did not inflict sufferings on other people ; she was the recipient of quite remarkable consolations , including that highest of all delights , the conviction of the ‘ mystical marriage ’ , in which Christ takes the soul directly as his spouse , and a loving one at that . |
| 25 | His long stiff pole sunk between the petal folds of her lubricated quim , and slid smoothly up into her heavenly channel . |
| 26 | Now at Thorsbury she and Victoria often rode to the fields to watch the men labouring and when it was clear that the work of leading and stacking the corn would soon be at an end , she kept the child entranced with stories of the Harvest Suppers of her youth . |
| 27 | It was true , I could n't keep my eyes from sprinting up her slim ankles , and fell-walking the contour lines of her sharp shoulders and her breasts , breasts that were improbably close to her scenic collar bone . |
| 28 | Nice work if you can get it , I thought as the tail lights of her Daimler ( or was it a Rolls ? ) disappeared into the night . |
| 29 | She sat very upright and looked down at her green lap and the bronze toes of her boots , and the brown silk handbag on a gilt chain which contained a handkerchief , a phial of sal volatile and some of Aunt Emily 's calling cards in a mother of pearl case , since she had none of her own . |
| 30 | And the simple colourless church windows of her wings |