Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy looked at her own face in the mirror . |
| 2 | After the hearing Elizabeth Lamplugh told of her own ordeal . |
| 3 | Alida listened to her own voice , soft in the chilly room , watching her own hands , plump , well-creased and polished , banded with rings , twisting together . |
| 4 | Karen looked at her own hands . |
| 5 | Finally , Sarah turned to her own daughter . |
| 6 | Slowly , Wilson returned to her own house , awed by such suffering . |
| 7 | As she limped into the farmhouse behind Seb , Carrie thought of her own words . |
| 8 | And yet the vulnerability she felt seemed strangely inward — as though danger lay within her own body , and not in the raw strength of the man before her . |
| 9 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 10 | As the nights grew darker and colder , dinner parties grew scarcer and most nights Alexandra spent by her own fire , doing her meticulous accounts , writing faithfully to her father or answering George Langley 's breezy and frequent letters from Cambridge , Rose and Grace Langley were in London until Christmas , their hunters idle in the stable and Alexandra 's life was both peaceful and satisfying in their absence . |
| 11 | Gillian retired to her own office where she prepared her flip charts . |
| 12 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 13 | Even if this is taken as a fair comment on the general scientific validity of the biographical approach to the topic , the preconceptions which Cox brought to her own analysis are also much in evidence . |
| 14 | Claudia laughed at her own fears ; she was quite safe with Roman — from the sea , anyway . |
| 15 | Gabriel disappeared into her own flat , which was minute , one room and a bathroom , but which she shared with no one . |
| 16 | Claudia dressed in her own clothes , a dazed expression on her face that effectively silenced the questions Myra wanted to ask . |
| 17 | Maria looked at her own watch and then at him , the pleasure fading from her face . |
| 18 | Christina went to her own office , which was located on the first floor of the reception building . |
| 19 | Anne looked at her own face . |
| 20 | With uncanny certainty , Theda knew that Lady Merchiston referred to her own words . |
| 21 | Lady Thurso looked in her own bag . |
| 22 | Instantly Leith 's thoughts flew to her own mother and how , should she ever see Sebastian looking as drawn and haggard as Travis had been just lately , she would more than likely be halfway demented too . |
| 23 | The coat and the lipstick came from her own work . |
| 24 | Rachel woke in her own room , tired- and uncomfortable . |
| 25 | Maura walked towards her own house . |
| 26 | Alice glanced at her own hands , small , neat , the nails immaculately well maintained , and covered with a transparent varnish to protect them from the world . |
| 27 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 28 | After supper , they put sheets and blankets on the beds , then Mother went to her own room . |
| 29 | Although , ultimately , she accepted the need for pattern books , production schedules , yearly reviews by committee and other organizational disciplines , she disliked intensely the way these formalities intruded into her own sphere of influence and destroyed the spontaneity of her collection , which had always been one of her greatest strengths . |