Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because they proved he 'd stolen the letters , ’ said Charlotte in a dull voice she scarcely recognized as her own . |
| 2 | And instead , all she could hear was a wailing noise that she hardly recognised as her own voice . |
| 3 | She nearly strangled on her own anger . |
| 4 | The caress on her warm skin whirlpooled her emotions till she nearly drowned in her own liquid senses . |
| 5 | She was educated in the household of Henry Hastings , third Earl of Huntingdon [ q.v. ] , president of the council in the north , and she learned there the Puritan habits of self-examination and regular religious exercises which she later practised in her own household . |
| 6 | She also appeared in her own one-woman show in Yiddish , Hello , Molly ! |
| 7 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 8 | She was in turn confused , amused , horrified by the things she read — and sometimes had that closer reaction , recognition of something suddenly true something she absolutely identified from her own experience , but had never put a name to . |
| 9 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 10 | When it sometimes emerged from her own lips , her teachers or friends would look at her oddly , wondering whether they had heard her correctly . |