Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a step towards her and instinctively she backed away , then stopped dead in her tracks , irritated anew by her own reaction and still more by the answering glint in his eyes . |
| 2 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 3 | The author writes chattily from her own experience and is quite happy to tell of her own mistakes and why she now recommends what she does . |
| 4 | God keep your life , ’ she said and moved serenely toward her own house . |
| 5 | Wilcox yelled in her ear , and she realized that she was grinning broadly at her own thoughts . |
| 6 | She stands before the mirror , looking straight through her own reflection , scowls at the glass and blows a decidedly twentieth-century raspberry straight at me . |
| 7 | Finn inserted his tongue between her lips , searching tentatively for her own tongue inside her mouth . |
| 8 | Rosalind comments shrewdly upon her own sex in her admonishment of Phoebe . |
| 9 | ‘ You look awfully pale , ’ she said sharply , as Elizabeth came into the lamplight , sounding even in her own cars more accusing than sympathetic . |
| 10 | In a shower of diamonds , in a dust cloud of shattered stars , in a bee swarm of broken glass , battered and bleeding , she was hurled face downward onto her own mattress and she lay there and screamed with fear and relief . |
| 11 | Mrs Carson was peering closely at her own image in the mirror . |
| 12 | What limits a teacher wishes to set will depend entirely on her own intentions for a given student . |
| 13 | Her voice sounded dark and dangerously excited even to her own ears . |
| 14 | ‘ She could n't walk , or bend , and getting upstairs to her own room was impossible because she was in too much pain , ’ says Janet . |
| 15 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 16 | Back on the ship afterwards , she flashed the smile one more time — and then whisked away to her own cabin . |
| 17 | She was hesitant , shy , reserved , ‘ more than pretty ’ in the eyes of the ‘ eldest son she loved best of her many sons ’ . |
| 18 | Fortunately she had managed to read quickly through her own piece , which looked really professional , but she wondered what J.D. was thundering about on the editorial page . |
| 19 | She gazed dispiritedly at her own reflection in the mirror , seeing the dark shadows beneath her eyes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thinking that if he ignored her , did n't show even a whisper of interest in her , she would give up and go home under her own steam , thereby allowing her to rescue some of her dignity . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm also an only child and my mother , who 's very English , also went home to her own folk after my father died in South Africa . ’ |
| 23 | One woman from a small East Tennessee community who now regularly speaks before community groups , college classes , and official hearings , speaks eloquently about her own growth as a woman and the liberating effect on her action to take back some control over her own life . ’ |
| 24 | She does have affection for him but is not over-impressed with his success as a writer and she speaks directly from her own experience rather than any vicarious sensations . |
| 25 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 26 | I said with regret , ‘ Good night , ’ and she went abruptly into her own domain and closed the door . |
| 27 | Unobserved , Beth closed the door and went softly into her own room . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The young wife of the Eldest Son emerged slowly from her own home . |
| 30 | A woman of this world who had passed her eighteenth birthday without being contracted in marriage was entitled to go with any man she chose — but did so on her own terms . |