Example sentences of "[vb past] in her [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words ‘ Rarefied atmosphere , yes ? ’ spoken in her own voice , returned to bother her . |
| 2 | Obviously a one-man operation by a disturbed girl who believed in her own propaganda . |
| 3 | Rachel woke in her own room , tired- and uncomfortable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 7 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 8 | She softened in her own attack . |
| 9 | On the flatter stretches they talked and laughed : where the path rose more steeply they lapsed into silence , each lost in her own thoughts . |
| 10 | And in whatever enterprise he was engaged there , in that far-off region she had never seen , and never would see , where his heart was , she knew in her own heart that it could not be less than glorious . |
| 11 | Lady Thurso looked in her own bag . |
| 12 | In leaving the room , swelling for the first time with tears , she had collided awkwardly with Gordon 's mother , who supposed she could stand where she liked in her own house , and even if Edward had called after her , she would not have been able to hear him . |
| 13 | ‘ And the old sister , the one who drowned in her own tub of water ? |
| 14 | Claudia dressed in her own clothes , a dazed expression on her face that effectively silenced the questions Myra wanted to ask . |
| 15 | She walked slowly downstairs and sat in her own armchair beside the sitting room window . |
| 16 | Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede , Surrey . |
| 17 | As we sat waiting , each wrapped in her own morning thoughts , a small three-year-old girl came quietly through the door , dragging a piece of black veiling behind her . |