Example sentences of "[prep] her [det] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dream about Adam had distressed her , and she had spent most of the previous night awake thinking about him , about her own life and where she was going . |
| 2 | Ikon Gallery Thur 3 Oct 6pm Tamara Wyss will be speaking about her own work and the other videos screened : |
| 3 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 4 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 5 | They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court . |
| 6 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 7 | Out of view of the front window , in the last light of a late February sun , Dorothea Shottery wept a little , for her own loneliness and for the absence of her friend . |
| 8 | Not that his mousey little wife was any match for her own looks and personality , Amanda thought contemptuously . |
| 9 | The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes . |
| 10 | Dorothea had never considered the world was a better place for her own existence and activities but surely Alida could feel just that ? |
| 11 | For her own good and everyone elses she must be restrained . ’ |
| 12 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 13 | She chose the music for her own funeral and pleaded : ‘ Do n't let anybody be sad . ’ |
| 14 | She was inspired and strengthened by seeing herself not as a passive victim , or a cancer patient , but as an individual working for her own health and well-being . |
| 15 | She turned quickly , ran through her own office and down the stairs . |
| 16 | Salha was a woman of strong , open and reassuring character whose links with the women of nearly every household in Huaiwiri through her own daughters and her mother 's sisters ' descent in the women 's line ensured that she had influence in all households . |
| 17 | The contrast between her former shyness and this new warmth was abrupt , but most certainly welcome . |
| 18 | Piaget viewed the emergence of intelligent thought as a process of construction , in which the infant actively seeks to make sense of her surroundings and , more particularly , the relationship between her own actions and the contingent events in the environment . |
| 19 | She became quite depressed as she realized the distance between her own knowledge and his . |
| 20 | Many of Hazel 's friends gathered at Yew Lodge to wish her a long and happy retirement , and regional managing director Graham Foote presented her with a microwave oven , a transistor radio , and numerous other gifts on behalf of her many friends and colleagues . |
| 21 | Padding the streets and prying into the window of a man 's life , and the trail turned him towards the second-floor flat of Mrs Angela Holly ( née Wells ) , two miles from the home of her former husband and parents-in-law . |
| 22 | Here she blossomed , recovering a great deal of her former vitality and alertness . |
| 23 | She cringed at the sound of her own voice and took a breath . |
| 24 | Then she stepped away from him , fearful of her own weakness and afraid that if he kissed her she would dissolve into a quivering jelly that would melt from sheer ecstasy . |
| 25 | Opposite him a woman leaned out of the window of her own apartment and shouted at him . |
| 26 | Audrey , a lively girl ( previously the leader of her own gang and described in the book as a ‘ misfit ’ ) , develops as a decidedly sympathetic character and elicits mainly admiration from the reader . |
| 27 | Yet much of her frustration was of her own making and within herself . |
| 28 | She peered down into the water but was aware only of her own reflection and that of the branches of the beech trees . |
| 29 | The text was photographic copies of her own handwriting and the thousands of plates required were laboriously produced on hand-coated paper . |
| 30 | It charts the artist 's career from her highly accomplished art school pieces she received the full encouragement of her parents in her chosen career while her early self portraits demonstrate an artist fully aware of her own powers and potential . |