Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [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 | Rachel returned that smile , a glimpse of future pain and ecstasy , then turned to move among her own family and friends . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would not be easy telling him to go but it was something she needed to do for her own peace of mind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He liked to rub in her few months extra from time to time . |
| 9 | For in dropping the source markers the author has , for the moment , ceased to speak with her own voice — ceased to supply the narrative thread ( which is what the source markers do ) — and has let the characters take over . |