Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played with her several times when she was in her 70s — and she trounced me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 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 | Dear old Martha had much of the milk of human kindness about her ; she had pensioners who shared with her such things as she had : one was a lame robin redbreast , who came and sat on a bush opposite the door till he was fed ; another was a pigeon whose cot was quite a mile away : she too looked for a meal on every visit , and after gathering her crop-full , would wing her flight over the fields and houses home to her cot . |
| 7 | Caterina knew this was the way things were done ; she glowed at her own craftiness at bringing it about . |
| 8 | She hopped into her own bed . |
| 9 | Cautiously she ventured into her own bedroom first . |
| 10 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 13 | Obviously a one-man operation by a disturbed girl who believed in her own propaganda . |
| 14 | She turned into her own room and , discarding her clothes , slipped into bed . |
| 15 | She paid for her own ticket , as it turned out . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | When she arrived at her own gate , she saw a large black Mercedes motor-car parked outside . |
| 18 | As Jenna stepped out of the car there was only silence and she frowned at her own stupidity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow . |
| 21 | And , as you heard from her own mouth on the telephone this morning , she is fine , though she refuses to come home to you and your wife . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She softened in her own attack . |
| 25 | Silently she brooded on her own thoughts , unwilling to admit to herself that he presented a challenge . |
| 26 | Whenever he complained too much about cost she went and bought what she needed with her own money . |
| 27 | But it was all the proof she needed of her own vulnerability where he was concerned . |
| 28 | ‘ Camo , ’ she called from her own kitchen . |
| 29 | She laughed at her own silliness . |
| 30 | She laughed at her own image . |