Example sentences of "[coord] she [vb past] [pron] own " in BNC.
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1 | Waves of heat washed over her , and she felt his own skin burning against hers . |
2 | ( This was why he had not been allowed up to seek out Miranda in her room — though she had managed on several occasions to sneak some of her new friends past the desk ; while at night , there was no porter and she had her own key to the wrought-iron and glass front door . ) |
3 | She thought that everything was composed of heat and corruption and water — that we live off death and water — and she resented her own blinding mortality . |
4 | Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe . |
5 | His eyes were a deep , dark grey , almost drugged , she saw as he turned her face up to his , and she guessed her own face must reflect the same emotions . |
6 | She can be domineering at times and she wanted her own way , ’ he said . |
7 | Emilia 's subsequent ill-temper spent itself on the domestic staff , and she interpreted his own efforts to placate the ruffled servants as treachery . |
8 | The young woman made a point of following the respective teams ’ results and their positions in the league tables and she held her own in the sporting discussions and arguments . |
9 | The answer to that she did not yet know , but she had her own answer already sworn , and she would not go back on it . |
10 | She had brought her car this time , crossed by ferry and faced the terrors of the Paris ring-road , but she needed her own things with her and this was the only way to do it . |