Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She then took matters into her own hands . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the corners of his mouth and around his eyes Polly saw echoes of her own strain . |
| 5 | Oh , she liked boys then , she liked boys of her own age , she had love affairs quite early . |
| 6 | Half of the trouble , of course , is that she always had nannies for her own children . |
| 7 | 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 . |