Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at Fergus 's dim reflection , distorted in the glass , then tried to re-focus on her own image . |
| 2 | India-May had that glazed look , as if she was describing a miracle , a miracle that she 'd witnessed with her own eyes . |
| 3 | So many years had passed since she 'd sat with her own grandmother in just this sort of quiet companionship . |
| 4 | Suddenly afraid of what she had unleashed , Shae backed away , barely realising she 'd stepped into her own room till he closed the door behind them . |
| 5 | Rachel returned that smile , a glimpse of future pain and ecstasy , then turned to move among her own family and friends . |
| 6 | Lan , for her part , hoped fervently that her innocence would be self-evident , and as she watched her prostrate grandfather 's lips moving soundlessly she began to phrase in her own mind the plea for leniency she intended to submit to the ancestral spirit . |
| 7 | And when something odd began to happen in her own body , a sensation she wished to call ugly because she had never felt it before and did not wish to feel it now with him , she released her temper again , thrashing about quite wildly beneath him to hurt herself and make the treacherous feeling go away . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , she had to withdraw from the Symposium , feeling that the effort was too much considering the work that she still required to do on her own Flora . |
| 9 | It would not be easy telling him to go but it was something she needed to do for her own peace of mind . |
| 10 | Well , she decided emphatically , whatever Luke was , Rob was pleasant company , and surely what she chose to do in her own lunch-hour was entirely her own affair . |
| 11 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 12 | If she comes from a family where she felt undermined by her own mother the effect upon her is compounded . |
| 13 | She started the course in July 1989 and chose to study by the distance learning method , which meant working in her own time . |
| 14 | He liked to rub in her few months extra from time to time . |
| 15 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 16 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 17 | Jenna knew without being told that Marguerite was finding this difficult ; each mile had added to her own anxiety , and Alain 's mother was feeling many anxieties too . |
| 18 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 19 | Like Faith , the Magdalene showed that she had come of her own wish by performing many miracles of healing and other good works ; and her church became one of the most popular centres of pilgrimage in Europe . |
| 20 | Her son Richard , whom she had named after her own father , was now a sturdy three year old , with a serious nature for one so young , although he had a mischievous and exasperating streak . |
| 21 | A farm cottage that Rose had commandeered for her own use from time to time . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't seem to have a lot of choice , ’ Jenna admitted , looking ruefully at the mess she had made of her own clothes . |
| 23 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 24 | Nettie always left it on , even when no one was at home and she herself had retired to her own rooms for the evening and Inge was out , as was the case tonight . |
| 25 | One social worker who had cared for her own mother for many y ears explains below how important it is to take on the role of carer for the right reasons : |
| 26 | Leonard 's ears , from his earliest moments , were conditioned to hear not only his mother talking but also singing in her lovely , deep alto voice the Yiddish lullabies she had known since her own childhood . |
| 27 | It had belonged to her own mother , once , in Ireland . |
| 28 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 29 | But serve her right , she had cut off her own source of fine delicate shoes , she would not find their like again , not in Swansea . |
| 30 | Rachel had gone to her own chamber . |