Example sentences of "her [noun] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her horror she felt her eyes fill with tears . |
| 2 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 3 | When we got back to her cottage she put her hand in her bodice and pulled out a string with her key and a whistle attached to it . |
| 4 | From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat . |
| 5 | As she brushed her hair she examined her face in the mirror , amazed when no trace of the experience of the night showed on it . |
| 6 | But in her heart she knew there was no way in the world she would ever take up this incredible offer , which had been prompted by motives she could not even begin to fathom . |
| 7 | Bertha Cohen wished she could believe that that was the explanation , but in her heart she knew it was n't . |
| 8 | For once in her life she was grateful for the surge of anger welling up inside her , glad to use it as a defence , even though in her heart she knew it was directed not at Dane but at herself . |
| 9 | In her heart she knew he would . |
| 10 | She had sensed from the beginning that his compliments to her were of a different kind from those he bestowed so liberally upon every female in sight , but she could n't tell him that , while in her heart she liked them , she might be annoyed by his assumption that they were always acceptable . |
| 11 | Love for her sister won , as in her heart she supposed she 'd known that it would . |
| 12 | When I offered to carry her sack she waved me aside . |
| 13 | Only she did n't , but without Leo 's heavy arm round her shoulders she thought she might have run out again . |
| 14 | With his arm tightly around her shoulders she found herself steered away from their small , amused , interested audience , away from the music and colourful dancing , out of the floodlit wood and back to the Aston Martin . |
| 15 | As the thought sprang into her mind she felt her entire body flood with heat even as she shivered in the chilly air . |
| 16 | With a small detached part of her mind she heard her quick , breathless words and realised that she was chattering . |
| 17 | There were so many things to do but at the back of her mind she knew she would never do any of them . |
| 18 | The moment the words left her lips she regretted them . |
| 19 | Even as the words left her lips she knew they sounded ridiculous . |
| 20 | Then she was aware of someone staring at her and looking out of the corner of her eyes she saw it was Carmella . |
| 21 | As she went towards her car she heard him call , ‘ I 'll look out for you . ’ |
| 22 | When the mother came up to her bedroom she asked what was going on . |
| 23 | In her bedroom she buried her face in the pillow while numerous sobs escaped her , shaking her slim body uncontrollably . |
| 24 | Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons . |
| 25 | As the figure closed his fingers around her lapels she clenched her fists together and forced her arms up between his arms until her hands met in front of her face , forcing him to loosen his grip . |
| 26 | Despite her fear she caught her breath at such beauty . |
| 27 | I saw the bits coming off her fag She said you stupid bastard well he was like this were n't he ? |
| 28 | And Max Jacob was there to help her , she informs her readers She found him far more useful and reliable in household matters than Modigliani . |
| 29 | As soon as the words were out of her mouth she regretted them . |
| 30 | From her hut she heard him call to the Moi and her sons , and a moment later they all plunged naked into the river . |