Example sentences of "at her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman had been convicted in her absence at an earlier hearing of abandoning the rat and causing unnecessary suffering to a domestic pet between October 23 and 29 at her former home in Streatham . |
| 2 | Pupils at her former school , Stanwell comprehensive in Penarth , held discos and other fund-raising efforts with her local church to pay her air fare . |
| 3 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 4 | And she stared too at her own friends , who appeared to her suddenly in a new light , laughing and fiddling with their luggage labels , and casting their eyes around them as though unbalanced by the sudden variety of choice . |
| 5 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 6 | Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman . |
| 7 | Noreen teaches HGV lorry driving at her own school in Halifax . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She refused to put the lunch on any earlier in the day ; it would spoil the coffee mornings she liked to go to or have at her own home from eleven to one o'clock . |
| 10 | In the exercise of his power of arrest , it was perfectly proper for the constable to have taken into account that ‘ there was a greater likelihood … that Mrs Mohammed-Holgate would respond truthfully to questions about her connection with or knowledge of the burglary , if she were questioned under arrest at the police station , than if , without arresting her , questions were put to her … at her own home from which she could peremptorily order [ him ] to depart at any moment ’ . |
| 11 | Now she spends more time at her aunt 's house than at her own home nearby , as she did when she grew up with Suzanne . |
| 12 | Katherine found herself smiling happily as if the compliment were directed at her own home . |
| 13 | She knew a quick surge of satisfaction when the door flew open , but there was no time to revel in pride at her own achievement as she took in the scene beyond the door . |
| 14 | ‘ What you doing here ? ’ said Marie , her voice bitter with anger at Gazzer and at her own weakness . |
| 15 | She wondered at her own weakness in craving for a man who had professed his love for her and made her with child , only to walk away without even a backward glance . |
| 16 | With a muffled cry of rage at her own weakness , Isabel shoved furiously at fitzAlan 's broad shoulder with one hand and brought the other up and around with the full force of her arm behind it . |
| 17 | But she had been in his strong arms before , and as agitation at her own weakness assailed her , so , while she still could , she fought to be free . |
| 18 | Feeling even more guilty , and appalled at her own behaviour , she quickened her pace , desperate to escape . |
| 19 | She felt like a being whose body was no longer at her own bidding ; the pains had stopped , then began again . |
| 20 | Caterina knew this was the way things were done ; she glowed at her own craftiness at bringing it about . |
| 21 | Relieved yet disappointed , and furious at her own inconsistency , Polly jumped at the chance to learn a new skill . |
| 22 | But if she is allowed to go at her own pace , without criticism , while she is dealing with the chaos within , you will find that her mood will gradually become more optimistic and her feelings of despair less frequent . |
| 23 | She laughed at her own silliness . |
| 24 | Wilcox yelled in her ear , and she realized that she was grinning broadly at her own thoughts . |
| 25 | She tried to resist , but as she struggled against him , the ridiculously scanty nightdress threatened to fall off her shoulders altogether , and embarrassment at her own state of undress forced her to make a grab for the material . |
| 26 | There were all sorts of disadvantages to that , but she did want to look at her own presentation and movement in the classroom . |
| 27 | Now it looks like a beacon , welcoming us home , thought Alice , though not without a wry glance at her own romanticism . |
| 28 | Lee turned her head away , looked down at her own navel and tried not to think about her mother . |
| 29 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 30 | When she arrived at her own gate , she saw a large black Mercedes motor-car parked outside . |