Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Or jumped of her own accord . ’ |
2 | But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips . |
3 | She was gone before they could utter a sound and arrived at her own room grinning widely , pleased with herself and only a little upset that Felipe was with that woman . |
4 | Kelly had driven straight home and embarked on her own investigation . |
5 | She shuddered and returned to her former seat . |
6 | Nora eased his shirt off and began on her own dress and stays . |
7 | Grumbling in Urdu while the bearer joked , she soon had him out of the door , motioned me to sleep on , and leapt into her own blankets for another half hour of rest . |
8 | She walked out of the room and went to her own room , seething with rage , humiliation and a great sense of desolation . |
9 | She stopped and stared at her own face in the mirror . |
10 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
11 | So , worn out and aching in every limb , she had her first bath in the marvellous bathroom , and retired to her own bed . |
12 | She walked slowly downstairs and sat in her own armchair beside the sitting room window . |
13 | They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized . |
14 | Peggy did not immediately go downstairs but went to her own room . |