Example sentences of "[pron] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gasping , momentarily blinded by the water in her eyes , she became conscious of Niall , treading water beside her , of his dark hair , plastered against his head , of his bronzed , naked chest against which her own head was resting as he let the water take her weight , drawing her towards him . |
| 2 | I have tried to show that these are the very points at which her own analyses of the figure prove useful . |
| 3 | Her own prosperity depended to some degree on providing loans to stimulate overseas economies in which her own products could be sold . |
| 4 | For the individual woman , the taking of a new step can be the moment at which her own nature affirms itself . |
| 5 | Katherine had even bought herself a new dress for the occasion out of her own pocket money topped up with a little from the bank account into which her own presents went . |
| 6 | This , no doubt , was the reason that Nenna 's thoughts , whenever she was alone , took the form of a kind of perpetual magistrates ' hearing , in which her own version of her marriage was shown as ridiculously simple and demonstrably right , and then , almost exactly at the same time , as incontrovertibly wrong . |
| 7 | As her business empire grew , Roddick was left with little time to participate actively in such environmental causes as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace , with which her own convictions were closely aligned . |
| 8 | She was aware , more strongly now than before , of all the human bodies pressed against her , the elbows and breasts and stomachs and buttocks and shoulders , and of the hard glass panel against which her own side was crushed . |
| 9 | Andreeva shared the anger and indignation of others in respect of the repression of the 1930s and 1940s , in which her own family had suffered . |
| 10 | ‘ Indeed not , ’ replied Sally-Anne , with all the fiery determination which her own family knew so well . |
| 11 | She had married the King of Spain ; she had restored the Latin Mass ; she had required her subjects to acknowledge the authority of the Pope which her own father had so blatantly flouted . |
| 12 | And she in turn supervised her her own women staff you see . |
| 13 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 14 | The state Karen was in , it was a wonder she knew who her own feet belonged to , never mind anyone else 's . |
| 15 | That said , the viola playing of Tabea Zimmermann ( are they her own arrangements ? — we 're not told ) is peculiarly eloquent , especially in ‘ Wasserflut ’ and ‘ Der Leiermann ’ . |
| 16 | Her birth , as far as she could see , had been accidental ; no careful well-intended deity could have selected for her her own home . |
| 17 | Inevitably , Madeleine 's name had cropped up and Harry had felt a pang of nostalgia remembering the little girl with her white dresses and long , golden plaits , laughing or stamping her foot if her brother did n't give her her own way . |
| 18 | The experience had given her her own shot of adrenalin and sleep was unthinkable . |
| 19 | Anna taught her and made her her own maid and they lived together ever after . |
| 20 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 21 | She never seemed to fall for anyone her own age , they were always older . ’ |
| 22 | She tried to imagine what her own party would be like when ( if ) someone wanted to marry her . |
| 23 | It hardly mattered what her own husband did or did not do when his wife languished in bed , an invalid . |
| 24 | Is this what her own mother had wanted ? |
| 25 | ‘ After the trick of the engagement Constanza wanted to break it off then and there whatever her own feelings . |
| 26 | Her training , and her experience , had taught her to put the patient first , whatever her own feelings might be . |
| 27 | Secondly , it was accepted by all English rulers that , whatever her own misapprehensions on this score , Scotland was basically an English colony . |
| 28 | She worried about Jane , but comforted herself that anything her own daughter believed in must a priori be acceptable . |
| 29 | Denice shows us her own life line , which goes about halfway up her arm . |