Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India-May had that glazed look , as if she was describing a miracle , a miracle that she 'd witnessed with her own eyes . |
| 2 | So many years had passed since she 'd sat with her own grandmother in just this sort of quiet companionship . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If she comes from a family where she felt undermined by her own mother the effect upon her is compounded . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A farm cottage that Rose had commandeered for her own use from time to time . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had belonged to her own mother , once , in Ireland . |
| 18 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rachel had gone to her own chamber . |
| 21 | His mouth tightened but he released her wrist , eyes glittering , and she ran up the stairs , into her bedroom , slammed the door , locked it , then knew with a terrible deep certainty that she had run from her own desire . |
| 22 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |
| 23 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 24 | Giggling like a child , rueful self-mockery etched on every line of her face , she applauded when a shout went up , joined in the disappointed groans when it proved a false alarm , commiserated with a rather determined little girl who had wandered into her own area of search and who thought she should have found one by now , and , thoroughly amused , by herself as much as by others , she whole-heartedly entered into the spirit of the thing . |
| 25 | Relatives of a ninety-one year old widow left battered in her own home are pleading for the public to help catch her attacker . |