Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | She was killed by PERSEUS when he held up his shield to her and she gazed at her own reflection . |
4 | She choked on her own revulsion ; and she panicked . |
5 | Caterina knew this was the way things were done ; she glowed at her own craftiness at bringing it about . |
6 | She hopped into her own bed . |
7 | Cautiously she ventured into her own bedroom first . |
8 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
11 | She turned into her own room and , discarding her clothes , slipped into bed . |
12 | She paid for her own ticket , as it turned out . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | When she arrived at her own gate , she saw a large black Mercedes motor-car parked outside . |
15 | As Jenna stepped out of the car there was only silence and she frowned at her own stupidity . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow . |
18 | 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 . ’ |
19 | ‘ 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | She softened in her own attack . |
22 | Silently she brooded on her own thoughts , unwilling to admit to herself that he presented a challenge . |
23 | Whenever he complained too much about cost she went and bought what she needed with her own money . |
24 | But it was all the proof she needed of her own vulnerability where he was concerned . |
25 | ‘ Camo , ’ she called from her own kitchen . |
26 | She laughed at her own silliness . |
27 | She laughed at her own image . |
28 | She laughed at her own joke . |
29 | She thought of her own son amongst the crowd today . |
30 | And in whatever enterprise he was engaged there , in that far-off region she had never seen , and never would see , where his heart was , she knew in her own heart that it could not be less than glorious . |