Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 2 | She moved towards her own car , parked a few yards away . |
| 3 | Cautiously she ventured into her own bedroom first . |
| 4 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 5 | The words ‘ Rarefied atmosphere , yes ? ’ spoken in her own voice , returned to bother her . |
| 6 | With uncanny certainty , Theda knew that Lady Merchiston referred to her own words . |
| 7 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 8 | And instead , all she could hear was a wailing noise that she hardly recognised as her own voice . |
| 9 | After the hearing Elizabeth Lamplugh told of her own ordeal . |
| 10 | They did not express or reveal but played with her own experience , or she wove fancies from tiny fragments of fact — at least this I sometimes thought I recognized . |
| 11 | I played with her several times when she was in her 70s — and she trounced me . |
| 12 | Obviously a one-man operation by a disturbed girl who believed in her own propaganda . |
| 13 | Rachel woke in her own room , tired- and uncomfortable . |
| 14 | The coat and the lipstick came from her own work . |
| 15 | Brian came from her own home town , though she had not known him there : this had some significance , both acknowledged , though Liz could not have said what it was . |
| 16 | She heard a sound and realised it came from her own throat . |
| 17 | She was in turn confused , amused , horrified by the things she read — and sometimes had that closer reaction , recognition of something suddenly true something she absolutely identified from her own experience , but had never put a name to . |
| 18 | She was educated in the household of Henry Hastings , third Earl of Huntingdon [ q.v. ] , president of the council in the north , and she learned there the Puritan habits of self-examination and regular religious exercises which she later practised in her own household . |
| 19 | ‘ Had my wife — her grandmother — been alive when Rose was orphaned she would have given her what she needed — and never received from her own mother — stability — a moral code . ’ |
| 20 | She lay beneath him , shy again , amazed at her own feelings . |
| 21 | She paid for her own ticket , as it turned out . |
| 22 | Instead , she dug into her own pocket and said , ‘ Mrs Richards does n't need any help today , Lina , but here 's some money in advance , and someone will come to fetch you when she 's ready to go back to her villa . ’ |
| 23 | Minutes later , feeling suddenly totally exhausted by all the nervous tension of the past few hours , Shiona kissed the already sleeping Kirsty goodnight , then climbed into her own bunk and closed her eyes . |
| 24 | She left the bus , walked down the main road to the comer , turned into her own road and saw scrawled in black beneath her feet ‘ cunt ’ . |
| 25 | She turned into her own room and , discarding her clothes , slipped into bed . |
| 26 | And it showed in her own tone when , ‘ Had you telephoned last night you would not have done so , ’ she replied coolly , if not a shade haughtily . |
| 27 | Finally , Sarah turned to her own daughter . |
| 28 | As Jenna stepped out of the car there was only silence and she frowned at her own stupidity . |
| 29 | When she arrived at her own gate , she saw a large black Mercedes motor-car parked outside . |
| 30 | 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 . |