Example sentences of "her [det] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time she was allowed to send letters to her former husband and to her children . |
| 2 | She was amazed by her own behaviour and between episodes was bitterly ashamed of what was happening to her . |
| 3 | She had her own life and in it no one bothered her . |
| 4 | Therefore the nostalgic gloss my grandmother cast backwards upon her own childhood and on her favourite brother , can not be separated from their histories , and our easy condemnations of slaughter miss the complicated realities . |
| 5 | Yet much of her frustration was of her own making and within herself . |
| 6 | The scales of sexuality tip at the point where a person is more highly attracted to others of his or her own sex than to those of opposite gender . |
| 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 | In many cases a user will actually solve his or her own problem while on the phone to Neptune ! |
| 9 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 10 | She disliked the sensation of being unable to analyse what was going on , either in her own head or in his , which could possibly produce this … shiver of reaction ? |
| 11 | Professional : The family member may give progressively less attention to his or her own work because of the problems at home and may even change employment in order to have more time or opportunity to supervise the worsening chaos at home . |
| 12 | The meal was passed in comparative silence , each woman worrying in her own way because of George 's failure to return . |
| 13 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 14 | Better she should be with a youngster nearer her own age than with him , who anyway fancied Rose Hilaire . |
| 15 | It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother . |
| 16 | But Laura had made up her own mind as to her next move . |
| 17 | Such benefits can to some extent compensate a widow for lack of access to occupational scheme benefits in her own right and for financial disadvantage arising from the traditional domestic division of labour . |
| 18 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 19 | She also suffered badly from perceptual problems , losing her normal awareness of her own body and of the people and objects around her . |
| 20 | Furious at such perfection , she turned Arachne into a spider , condemning her to spin thread from her own body and to be weaving a web for ever after . |
| 21 | She turned quickly , ran through her own office and down the stairs . |
| 22 | Whether she does this or not depends , in Britain , on her own personality and on the attitude of her parents-in-law . |
| 23 | In the weeks preceding her dismissal , she was beset by rumours of dissent within her own party and on Aug 5 it was announced that the Combined Opposition Parties intended to table a motion of no confidence against her government . |
| 24 | Isabel became suddenly aware of her own vulnerability and of the need for preventive action . |
| 25 | Each member of the Community has his or her own room except in the case of families when brothers or sisters can share a room . |
| 26 | Quite enough noise to cover the sound of Jinny 's feet creeping out of her own room and across the landing . |
| 27 | Indeed in 1828 , as an inscription on the Spanish side of the Bréche records , the reckless Duchesse de Berry , widow of the assassinated second son of King Charles X , ascended to it , not under her own power but under that of her hired porters , who carried her to the top in a chair . |
| 28 | She felt so good she stopped the remedy of her own accord but within 2 weeks began a period . |
| 29 | Lucy stared at her plate , expecting to hear Silas agree with her own statement that of course she 'd be leaving — but he made no comment . |