Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fresh hope … new lead in hunt for man who attacked pensioner in her own home . |
| 2 | She used people for her own ends . |
| 3 | She grimaced a little as she caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror . |
| 4 | She caught sight of her own reflection in the mirror and uttered a single soft curse . |
| 5 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 6 | She caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror behind the wardrobe door and gave a disgusted snort . |
| 7 | On another famous occasion , Clara , stark naked , drying herself in her cubicle , caught sight of her own image in the wet tiled floor : " Good God , " she cried out , " just look at me , how weird I look from underneath , " and all the girls had cried out , " Ssh , ssh , Clara , somebody might be listening . |
| 8 | Shelley found tears in her own eyes , as Constance sat with a beatific look on her face , and young Pablo , looking neat and dapper in his best clothes , stood smiling at the altar , waiting for his childhood sweetheart to join him . |
| 9 | She nodded acceptance of her own thoughts : ‘ You 'll hand me over … ’ |
| 10 | Lindsey spooned sugar into her own cup . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's time Dana took responsibility for her own life , instead of turning to you at every imagined crisis , ’ Myra said . |
| 12 | She then took matters into her own hands . |
| 13 | Moreover if we wish to interpret ‘ consolations ’ in a rather more modern way we can not but admire the efficiency with which she took control of her own life . |
| 14 | His Quaker wife , the famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , felt members of her own family were also giving him the cold shoulder when they heard he was being ‘ investigated ’ by the Ratcliff and Barking monthly meeting . |
| 15 | At the corners of his mouth and around his eyes Polly saw echoes of her own strain . |
| 16 | She was a middle-aged woman with a worn , washed-out face : she always reminded Marie of her own mother . |
| 17 | Oh , she liked boys then , she liked boys of her own age , she had love affairs quite early . |
| 18 | Half of the trouble , of course , is that she always had nannies for her own children . |
| 19 | I have explained to King Henry many times that his worthy sister left Scotland of her own accord or , should I say , fled ? |
| 20 | Later , Phoebe tucked Maggie into her own bed . |
| 21 | I asked Domitila about her own experience , and what had happened at Siglo XX during that turbulent time . |
| 22 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |