Example sentences of "her [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of her responsibility was the key to the Appeal Court 's decision yesterday . |
| 2 | Her whole family had been involved with the tradition for generations : she had just ridden with her daughter in the procession in a decorated pony and trap ; her son-in-law was the new polemaster ; and her grandson was dancing round the maypole . |
| 3 | But they both had shields against which the lances struck , and the beauty of it was that on her shield was the insignia of the sun , on his that of the moon ; so they were each protected by the principle they opposed . |
| 4 | When she was absent , the shadow of her presence was the assurance of a world of love . |
| 5 | Her hair was the same bright copper glow , and yet , below it , her face had collapsed in heavy folds , like cloth . |
| 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 | Her hair was the plaything of the rough breeze as she ran towards him and he caught his breath . |
| 8 | Her hair was the colour of sand , flat and smooth around her head . |
| 9 | Her skin looked luminous , her hair was the colour of the pale amber beads Aunt Emily always wore because she said they helped her rheumatism . |
| 10 | Her hair was the most beautiful thing about her . |
| 11 | If her story was the truth , I can think of only one reason why she did n't come forward right away . |
| 12 | Yet the heartening aspect of her story was the way Diana had come to terms with her life and how , with the help of friends and counsellors , she was finding her true nature . |
| 13 | Her skin was the colour of thick , pale cream of the kind that often accompanies that particular shade of dark red hair . |
| 14 | Her favourite was the coffee shop in Fenwicks in Bond Street for this was the haunt and the meeting place of all those from the world of fashion . |
| 15 | A major problem for those wishing to persuade Mrs Thatcher to change her mind was the time constraint imposed by the leadership election rules . |
| 16 | The least marked to her mind was the Leader . |
| 17 | But predominant in her mind was the unsettling effect her companion seemed to be having on her . |
| 18 | At the back of her mind was the thought that he might be with someone else . |
| 19 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 20 | She was taking eight months ' leave without pay from Coronation , but in the back of her mind was the odd feeling that she would n't be going back , and she did n't quite know what it meant . |
| 21 | She had faced a certain amount of humiliation again at the hands of that wretched Marie , but the thing that stayed in her mind was the feel of Alain 's arms and the tang of his skin . |
| 22 | But as she hurried up the stairs to the sanctuary of her bedroom , what filled her mind was the stark , appalling thought of the treachery she had so nearly perpetrated on herself . |
| 23 | Ruth wanted it never to end but always in the back of her mind was the thought that it must . |
| 24 | BELVILLE : I hope that my Pamela 's inclination for her persecutor was the strongest motive for her return . |
| 25 | ‘ Her carriage was the only way she could get out . ’ |
| 26 | Equally , her study was the first to find that chimpanzees wage war on each other , hunt and eat other animals , and even turn murderously on their own kind . |
| 27 | Opposite her bedroom was the kitchen . |
| 28 | Added to her humiliation was the knowledge that some of her friends , who had seen the incident , could have helped her but did not do so . |
| 29 | An agreement between Desiree and her lawyer was the ‘ smoking gun ’ that proved their case . |
| 30 | The descent of her inheritance was the object of intense rivalry in the early 1470s between Clarence , who had married one of Warwick 's coheiresses , and Gloucester , who married the other . |