Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And instead , all she could hear was a wailing noise that she hardly recognised as her own voice . |
| 2 | She was educated in the household of Henry Hastings , third Earl of Huntingdon [ q.v. ] , president of the council in the north , and she learned there the Puritan habits of self-examination and regular religious exercises which she later practised in her own household . |
| 3 | She nearly strangled on her own anger . |
| 4 | Abruptly he left her , the bed lifting as he rose , and began to stride up and down the floor while Meredith frantically searched for her own clothes , her eyes warily on him . |
| 5 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 6 | Minutes later , feeling suddenly totally exhausted by all the nervous tension of the past few hours , Shiona kissed the already sleeping Kirsty goodnight , then climbed into her own bunk and closed her eyes . |
| 7 | Leith had a brief discussion with Robert Drewer on a few matters , collected up several files while she was at it , then went to her own office , where her assistant had just arrived . |
| 8 | When it sometimes emerged from her own lips , her teachers or friends would look at her oddly , wondering whether they had heard her correctly . |
| 9 | Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede , Surrey . |
| 10 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 11 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 12 | ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’ |
| 13 | She was in turn confused , amused , horrified by the things she read — and sometimes had that closer reaction , recognition of something suddenly true something she absolutely identified from her own experience , but had never put a name to . |