Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flashed him a brief and insincere smile , her eyes puffy and filled with her own worries . |
| 2 | All she wanted was to get this whole thing over with , so she could go home to Kentish Town and sleep in her own bed . |
| 3 | This is always a surprising development from the point of view of those close to her , but if you are faced with this reaction in your elderly parent , or any other that seems strange but harmless , tread softly , and accept the fact that she must be allowed to grieve and to adjust in her own way . |
| 4 | She was shouting at me and shouting at her own helplessness . |
| 5 | It was never suggested , or thought of , that Dinah should return and look after her own progeny . |
| 6 | She was gone before they could utter a sound and arrived at her own room grinning widely , pleased with herself and only a little upset that Felipe was with that woman . |
| 7 | Here she , not he , is the anxious worker , soon dressed , pausing briefly over The Guardian Women 's Page and muesli before climbing into her clapped-out Renault and heading for her own day of action . |
| 8 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
| 9 | Liz attempted her first sketch of her mother , her first outline for the outside world of the domestic ghost with which she had lived so long : Alix spoke of her relief at escaping from the small boarding school world in which her parents and her contemporaries all knew one another far too well : Esther conjured up visions of both deprivation and splendour in her own past . |
| 10 | In the ensuing conflict Russia was defeated at sea and humiliated on her own doorstep by the fall of her Crimean naval base at Sevastopol . |
| 11 | Kelly had driven straight home and embarked on her own investigation . |
| 12 | She shuddered and returned to her former seat . |
| 13 | Nora eased his shirt off and began on her own dress and stays . |
| 14 | The girls then settle to tell a story : of a lady called Ai nt Baby , born with no parents and no name , and raised by her own efforts to local prominence as a midwife ; of Ai nt Baby 's daughter Candy , product of a night of casual lust with a passing drifter , and of Candy 's haphazard rise to an academic doctorate at a university in the liberal north . |
| 15 | Grumbling in Urdu while the bearer joked , she soon had him out of the door , motioned me to sleep on , and leapt into her own blankets for another half hour of rest . |
| 16 | Kathleen Lavender lay awake and feared for her own sanity . |
| 17 | She was tired too and she ought to get up from here and go into her own cabin . |
| 18 | She walked out of the room and went to her own room , seething with rage , humiliation and a great sense of desolation . |
| 19 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |
| 20 | She stopped and stared at her own face in the mirror . |
| 21 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 22 | But Iritnefert had been found by the river , outside the compound ; and Neferukhebit in her own home . |
| 23 | Their mother was known to be at high risk herself given the family history , and we were keen to offer her both counselling and screening for her own benefit . |
| 24 | It 's all very well keeping mentally flexible and all the rest of the who-har , but if you , er , my , my mother stopped and said to her many years ago , she said , you do n't look your age , you do n't act your age , you do n't sound your age , you do n't think your age , but you are your age , and this is absolutely true , as you grow older , nothing will stop the fact that your arteries get a little harder , so that , you know , that you get raised blood pressure quite easily if your agitated and you are , for some reason you , you have to puff a lot more , I was reading about this just recently , and these are changes that take place whatever you do , you can exercise , and you can take vitamins and you can keep your weight down , but you age . |
| 25 | Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew . |
| 26 | Nell Shipman was a Canadian actress turned script-writer , who in the 1920s started producing , directing and starring in her own films . |
| 27 | So , worn out and aching in every limb , she had her first bath in the marvellous bathroom , and retired to her own bed . |
| 28 | She walked slowly downstairs and sat in her own armchair beside the sitting room window . |
| 29 | Now she wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge , tend to her beloved garden in Kennebunkport and read to her own grandchildren , instead of other people 's . |