Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 2 | She put her hand on the older woman 's shoulder and Aunt Margaret blindly grasped it with her own bird-claw . |
| 3 | She gave Anne potted biographies of all the other patients and told her about her own treatment . |
| 4 | A PSYCHIATRIC hospital patient hanged herself in her own room , an inquest heard . |
| 5 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 6 | ‘ But Lotta loved you in her own way ? ’ |
| 7 | However , she was prepared to go along with the advisory teacher 's point of view in the sessions and reassured herself concerning her own fears by using whole-class lessons to reinforce what she felt pupils should have discovered . |
| 8 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |
| 9 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 10 | To make matters even more wretched than they already were , Celia cried both day and night and because of Liza 's deepening depression Harriet found it was she who was forced to bear the brunt of this , so much so that after a while she simply swept up baby and cot and took them into her own bedroom . |
| 11 | The bus back took her past her own mother 's house . |
| 12 | Wendy and Dev presently parted ; Wendy , who by then had a real drink problem , was hired to do a milk delivery round which took her to her own doorstep , and daily contact with Apricot , until Ken put a stop to it . |
| 13 | The rest of the cast seemed blissfully unaware of his absence , and not one questioned her about her own disappearance . |
| 14 | It transpired that ‘ family ’ meant anyone from her own tribe . |
| 15 | Vivienne , who had felt The Waste Land to be a part of herself , saw ‘ The Hollow Men ’ as a fitting follow-on , and related it to her own nightmares . |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry to be late , ’ she told Jimmy when she made it to her own office . |
| 17 | erm Then she came down to Christchurch and was welcomed by the heads of the university , her husband had already greeted her outside Oxford , on the site of , actually , and then Charles escorted her to her own household in Merton College . |
| 18 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 19 | Yet he had letters and journals , as well as his own books , to help in his compilation ; Margery had nothing but her own memory . |
| 20 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 21 | Meals on tour were hilarious in her company , as she entertained us with her many anecdotes , always extremely funny but never malicious . |