I. determiner
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
casting her eyes down
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She blushed, casting her eyes down .
emptied her glass (= drank all the liquid left in it )
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Ruth emptied her glass in one gulp.
fresh in her mind
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The accident was still fresh in her mind.
heart pounding in her chest
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She ran, her heart pounding in her chest .
Her Majesty the Queen (= used when talking about a queen )
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Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting Australia in July.
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
ideas above her station (= higher than her social rank )
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Karen was definitely getting ideas above her station .
lets...walk all over her
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It’s terrible – she lets her kids just walk all over her .
lost her looks (= became less attractive )
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When she lost her looks she found it difficult to get work.
married beneath her (= married someone of a lower social class than her )
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Sophia had, in a sense, married beneath her .
sb's nerve fails (him/her) (= someone suddenly loses the courage or confidence to do something )
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At the last moment, her nerve failed her.
To her shame (= it made her feel ashamed )
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To her shame , she gained back all the weight she’d lost.
tried her hardest
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She tried her hardest to ignore what he’d said.
turned on her heel (= turned away suddenly because of anger )
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Brigitte glared at him, turned on her heel , and stomped out of the room.
unsteady on her feet (= she might fall over )
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She was quite unsteady on her feet .
young for her age
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Val is incredibly young for her age .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God rest his/her soul
God rest his/her soul
God rest his/her soul
I don't envy you/her etc
Your/Her/His Highness
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Besides, I don't want anything from you, Your Highness .
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But that's the deal, Your Highness .
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No, Your Highness , you are, of course, welcome to stay.
Your/Her/His Majesty
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His Majesty , King Juan Carlos I
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How do you like the White House, Your Majesty ?
Your/His/Her Excellency
Your/His/Her Honour
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At a lunch in his honour , friends and former rivals gathered to pay him tribute.
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Festivals in his honour are marked by a plethora of flowers, and the lusciously scented frangipani is held sacred to him.
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He was laid to rest in a grave at his settlement on the riverbank and a shrine was raised in his honour .
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In 1817 the Dublin Society struck a gold medal in his honour .
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She said: Our Blessed Lady asked me to ask you to have a small chapel built here in her honour .
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The lectures are named in his honour and organisers hope to attract big names in the future.
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This year a memorial hall was built in his honour at his birthplace, Yaotsu.
as fast as his/her legs could carry him/her
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She ran to her mother as fast as her legs could carry her.
at His/Her Majesty's pleasure
bless (him/her etc)
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Hence, the blessing of bread on her feast day.
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I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I will curse.
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Orphism, as the other Hellenistic mystery religions, claimed to teach its adepts the means of securing a blessed immortality.
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Riggs said Clinton administration representatives agreed to the further funding restriction in return for congressional leaders' blessing of the spending bill.
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So much undervalued this fish and yet St Peter himself has blessed it with his thumb-mark.
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Such a prestigious credit was something of a mixed blessing .
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Suddenly the door bell rang and she blessed that she'd blissed the afternoon away.
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They love every minute of it, too, bless their hearts particularly the scandals.
coming from him/her/you etc
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As I couldn't work out where they were coming from I ignored them.
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But all the intensity is coming from her.
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But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me.
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Coast Guard helicopters flying over the barge noticed an oil sheen coming from it, DeVillars said.
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Maybe these intimate stories, coming from some one she hardly knew, had overwhelmed her.
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That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.
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That was rich coming from him!
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The little girl coming from her direction offers the other, much thinner one, a bowl filled with bread and fruit.
do your/his/her/their worst
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Let her do her worst to reach him.
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Sometimes they successfully slowed or blocked the path of the conquistadores when these exploiters were out to do their worst .
don't mind her/him etc
hark at him/her/you!
his/her etc eyes were popping (out of his/her etc head)
his/her nibs
let him/her/them etc
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He would not rush the boy, he had to let him come to him.
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I also owed Maggie the courtesy of letting her know I didn't need her to do my legwork any longer.
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I had once made the mistake of letting him do this.
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I stood there, thinking to myself, Okay just let him wear himself out.
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Of course, Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice, or lack of it.
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Then let her do it for the Junior League.
let it/her rip
my/her beloved
rather you/him/her/them than me
sb can't do sth to save his/her life
sb doesn't have much meat on him/her
through no fault of her/my etc own
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In my opinion Anna acted more childishly but through no fault of her own.
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So, through no fault of my own, I was at a loose end quite a bit.
to his/her fingertips
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A calm emanated from the place, moving down through his torso and out to his fingertips .
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A tiny knot of tension throbbed at the back of her neck, running the length of her arms to her fingertips .
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He was a musician to his fingertips and he had a very subtle understanding of the interplay of characters on the stage.
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The spark ing leapt to his fingertips , and he was in her trance, his own skin alert to hers.
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There was a glorious sunset rush of pure-blooded warmth all over her back and right down to her fingertips .
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Though since Cara was a professional to her fingertips she supposed that she would.
what's biting you/her etc?
what's her/your etc game?
what's his face/what's her face
what's his/her/its name
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What about your commitment to - what's his name?
worth his/her salt
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A cop worth his salt wouldn't take a bribe.
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Any journalist worth her salt would have got scads more out of the tall Czechoslovakian than she had, she thought glumly.
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No brass worth her salt was even up before twelve-thirty!
your/her etc senses
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But once you start to write, you are moonstruck, out of your senses ...
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His cheek brushed hers with a cathartic effect on her senses .
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It proved impossible; her senses were heightened to such a degree that she could hear every move he made.
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Paige could feel her heart beating like a trapped bird in her chest and her senses reeled.
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She could only pray that Dana had come to her senses and had left before they arrived at Garry's hide-out.
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Steel threaded through her muscles, and her senses became as sharp as a cat's.
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Until she comes to her senses , that is.
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Use all your senses to find yourself there.
your/her ladyship
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And while I adored them both, I was closer to her ladyship .
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Now, you're a plants-woman of no small renown, if I may say so, your ladyship .
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Privately, I think he wanted to spare her ladyship his death.
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The shallow space is articulated by the angled chair on which her Ladyship is seated, and by the elegant rococo table.
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There was therefore left at the Lodge only Mrs Elswick in the kitchen and Theda attendant on her ladyship .
your/her/my etc Sunday best
your/his/her Royal Highness
II. pronoun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I owe her $25.
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There's a picture of her in here.
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Where did you meet her ?