Example sentences of "her [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appointment ended three weeks of political uncertainty during which Sheikh Hasina Wajed , leader of the second-largest party , the Awami League , challenged Begum Zia to demonstrate her majority at the first session of the newly elected Jatiya Sangsad ( National Assembly ) , scheduled for April 5 . |
| 2 | Ms Hoey , who strengthened her majority at the last general election in Vauxhall , which she first won at a by-election , has also caused a stir over Northern Ireland policy . |
| 3 | He deposited her case at the front door then strode back to his car , and she watched him go with hatred , her eyes moving over his powerful body , so lean , so tall , so impeccably dressed . |
| 4 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |
| 5 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 6 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 7 | Shelley felt a tug at her heart at the sudden attraction of him , the perfect body and the face that looked so much more natural and attractive out here in the warm southern wind . |
| 8 | And even if it was n't too personal , did she really want him to know that some wee devil of tenderness pulled at her heart at the grey lines of weariness etched into his face ? |
| 9 | Making her debut at the Royal National Theatre in February , Frances Barber stars as a hotel manageress in Richard Eyre 's revival of the Tennessee Williams classic , The Night Of The Iguana . |
| 10 | DEBORAH Warner , who stunned us with her Titus Andronicus and Electra , makes her debut at the National directing Brecht 's The Good Person of Sichuan in the Olivier . |
| 11 | Blanche found the gesture patronising , symbolising the way she was treated by many of her superiors at the Metropolitan Police or creatures from the male world of spies . |
| 12 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 14 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 15 | It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute . |
| 16 | Viola Machin , nevertheless , seemed impervious to it : she stood in bosomy grief , in a becoming coat of umber shade , dabbing her eyes at the pathetic bits of the service ; Desmond , in a heavy black coat , managed only an insurance agent 's decorous grief ; and Hilary looked as if cheerfulness might keep breaking through — which would probably , after all , be what Hilda would have liked most . |
| 17 | Mrs Chalker , who lost her seat at the general election , faced giving up her job as Minister of the Overseas Development Administration and Britain 's leading representative at the European Bank , leaving a gap in the British team but will continue in her post from the House of Lords . |
| 18 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
| 19 | The skirt did not reach her calves at the ideal point for flattery . |
| 20 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 21 | She lost her nerve at the last minute . |
| 22 | ‘ She took her insulin at the right time , and ate properly ? ’ |
| 23 | She straightened , holding the small of her back and her bulge at the same time . |
| 24 | In between driving lessons — she passed her test at the second attempt she was much in demand as a babysitter by her sisters ' married friends while Sarah used her to make up numbers at her frequent dinner parties . |
| 25 | She spent £3,000 on driving lessons over four years before passing her test at the 29th attempt . |
| 26 | But the putt she will take rather longer to forget was her seven-footer at the sixth . |
| 27 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 28 | The moves follow a separate case involving a 14-year-old girl who will today defend her right to ‘ divorce ’ her parents at the High Court . |
| 29 | Arriving on her broomstick at the prison-like school gates , Mildred peered through the railings into the misty playground . |
| 30 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |