Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] her [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | Desperately , she fought against her own traitorous instincts . |
| 3 | She forgot about her own precarious position , her fears of being thrown out , of being caught again by Samson or Garty . |
| 4 | She remembered the way the midwife had bent her knee so that Carolyn 's calf pressed against her thigh , and held it pinned with her own bare arm . |
| 5 | As a result , a married woman is now entitled to have her section of the joint pension ( currently £32.55 ) offset against her own personal allowance — instead of being counted as part of her husband 's taxable income . |
| 6 | One of the boarders was a clergyman , the Reverend Baron from Cheshire , and he , finding her at every turn with the Bible open , praised her devotion , which released from her such loud protestations of her unworthiness that he was stopped in his tracks . |
| 7 | A capacity crowd of nearly 6,500 — including King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia — went wild as their 28-year-old world champion went for her own golden bid . |
| 8 | She hesitated while searching for an answer that would not betray the fact that she longed to remain in Stella 's place but that she feared for her own emotional state . |
| 9 | Winnie felt guilty , sometimes , when she read of people crowded into tenements , and thought of her own empty bedrooms . |
| 10 | Kit Hegarty lay in her own narrow bed and heard the fog horn and the town hall clock , heard the occasional sound of a car going past . |
| 11 | Anna interjected with her own heated views , but when Boz reached them , he confronted Seb . |
| 12 | She also appeared in her own one-woman show in Yiddish , Hello , Molly ! |
| 13 | The caress on her warm skin whirlpooled her emotions till she nearly drowned in her own liquid senses . |