Example sentences of "her own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This woman , ’ the judge would say , ‘ is so depraved , so much the slave of her own passions , that she had no hesitation in bludgeoning to death the father of her child on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 2 | Zsofia , 15 , has the air of a girl experimenting happily with young womanhood , enjoying her own attractiveness . |
| 3 | But Mary was not actually being singled out for special treatment or favour , except in so far as her own attractiveness and charm marked her out . |
| 4 | She closed her own menu . |
| 5 | ‘ If Diana can be accused of contriving anything then it is to ensure her own survival . ’ |
| 6 | In May 1875 Japan and Russia had concluded a treaty whereby Japan acknowledged Russian suzerainty over the island of Sakhalin in return for her own possession of the Kurile Isles , the archipelago running northeast from the coast of Hokkaido . |
| 7 | are provided by a range of resources available to the learner , permitting her to find her own answers . |
| 8 | A salesperson may have to organise his or her own call plan . |
| 9 | Alice stood smiling , disappointed in him , if not in her own state ; she was still floating . |
| 10 | His eyes made a comprehensive sweep of her and she realised belatedly that , in the hangover from her nightmare , she had forgotten her own state of undress . |
| 11 | She tried to resist , but as she struggled against him , the ridiculously scanty nightdress threatened to fall off her shoulders altogether , and embarrassment at her own state of undress forced her to make a grab for the material . |
| 12 | Mrs Janet Postance , Landscore 's head , carries about with her a cardboard box which might once have held apples , now replaced with documents relating to the national curriculum , the Devon Education Authority curriculum and her own school curriculum . |
| 13 | She began to teach , opened her own school in Cape Town in 1931 , and soon began presenting her pupils in occasional public performances , with members of the staff taking the solo parts . |
| 14 | From her own school she enlisted five teachers she could ill afford and ten senior boys and girls . |
| 15 | Noreen teaches HGV lorry driving at her own school in Halifax . |
| 16 | After qualifying Margaret opened her own school of dancing in Hove and continued to teach until the birth of her two children ; music and dance have continued to play a major part throughout her life . |
| 17 | He goes to a school in the Tene Valley , it 's a teacher that , he used to go to Exeter school and the teacher 's opened her own school and , only for lo a small time and then she 's opening up actually in Exeter but this is an in between and she 's a very good teacher ! |
| 18 | Whenever he complained too much about cost she went and bought what she needed with her own money . |
| 19 | He suspected Rose was letting her have some of her own money . |
| 20 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 21 | He felt she was definitely too mean to spend her own money on entertaining . |
| 22 | Kylie feels that way too and has put a lot of her own money into the tour too . ’ |
| 23 | Spending her own money lavishly , she employed jewellers and fine craftsmen to build a doll 's house , magnificently decorated and well-displayed , and took it down to Neptune with her . |
| 24 | She had heard her mother say that she could provide these things , but that the days were long and lonely on her own and she would like to meet people and to earn her own money , no matter how small . |
| 25 | Another elderly woman in Sheffield who occasionally spends her afternoons playing dominoes in a community centre , where we met , says she 's never had her own money . |
| 26 | Now she has this fancy residence in Delaporte , big Spanish-style house , built with all her own money , and he 's the college graduate . |
| 27 | Because she has already got £70 of her own money , she will actually get £42.55 income support . |
| 28 | ‘ She would n't be meeting other people and she would n't have her own money so she could n't go . |
| 29 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
| 30 | She 's ploughed her own money into the project , carrying on after retirement . |