Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] of her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt angry with others for robbing her of her ideal fantasy of motherhood . |
| 2 | Victory in her first war with one of the European powers had the paradoxical effect not of reassuring Japan that she was now a major power able to compete effectively with the others as at least an equal but , instead , of convincing her of her continuing vulnerability and the need to strengthen further her military capability . |
| 3 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 4 | The ever-cautious Margaret Beckett is no longer on the left by any definition but her own , but she knows that she can not win the votes of a majority of MPs , let alone constituency members , without reminding them of her leftwing roots . |
| 5 | Lissa did not know where she found the strength to answer him without betraying anything of her inner turmoil . |
| 6 | And you may ask yourselves , my dear and most innocent readers , whether he spoke there with more gentleness or cunning , since the lady set such store on giving herself of her own free will , and since also the castle with its gardens , though now measurable with pins and fine stitches and thumbnails and thimbles , were lordly and handsome enough for any man to wish to spend his days there . |
| 7 | Mary Read , who had first worked in New York in 1916 with the Sunshine Girls , endeared herself to reporters by telling them of her great love of the city . |
| 8 | She also wondered if she had put him off by telling him of her previous engagement and how wary of love it had left her . |