Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Murgulescu , the original head of her field , was subordinated to her and witnessed her takeover of his institute which she amalgamated with her own operations to obliterate any trace of professional independence . |
| 2 | Desperately , she fought against her own traitorous instincts . |
| 3 | She lived on her own , I I think she was an ex-nurse if I remember rightly . |
| 4 | She was killed by PERSEUS when he held up his shield to her and she gazed at her own reflection . |
| 5 | She choked on her own revulsion ; and she panicked . |
| 6 | Caterina knew this was the way things were done ; she glowed at her own craftiness at bringing it about . |
| 7 | She hopped into her own bed . |
| 8 | Cautiously she ventured into her own bedroom first . |
| 9 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
| 10 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 11 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 12 | From another encylopedia , this time of African animals , she identified for us some of the small animals they occasionally caught and ate . |
| 13 | Then one day she came on her own and said right out , ‘ You know something , you can be whatever you are but I still like you . ’ |
| 14 | remember the last time Linda was here she came on her own and her father |
| 15 | She turned into her own room and , discarding her clothes , slipped into bed . |
| 16 | She paid for her own ticket , as it turned out . |
| 17 | She stated in her own will it was to come to me when Dad died . ’ |
| 18 | Instead , she dug into her own pocket and said , ‘ Mrs Richards does n't need any help today , Lina , but here 's some money in advance , and someone will come to fetch you when she 's ready to go back to her villa . ’ |
| 19 | When she arrived at her own gate , she saw a large black Mercedes motor-car parked outside . |
| 20 | She forgot about her own precarious position , her fears of being thrown out , of being caught again by Samson or Garty . |
| 21 | As Jenna stepped out of the car there was only silence and she frowned at her own stupidity . |
| 22 | She felt flattered by the suggestion , not that any of it was true of course , but she did n't want to have to explain the time she spent on her own in the flat , inventing things to do . |
| 23 | This alerted Eva , and she arranged for them all to go out for supper . |
| 24 | She escaped to her own room and sat down on the bed , huddling in her damp raincoat and picking at the stitches of the band on her arm . |
| 25 | She administered to him some wine diluted in water . |
| 26 | There was a curtness to her tone , but Debbie did n't seem at all perturbed as she grinned at them both . |
| 27 | She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow . |
| 28 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 29 | Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night . |
| 30 | She softened in her own attack . |