Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back .
2 Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course .
3 Her boy-friend shot me in the leg . ’
4 She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory .
5 Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm .
6 She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face .
7 It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’
8 Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats .
9 All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy .
10 She pestered her mother to enter her in the Imperial Ballet school , but two impatient years passed before she was old enough to audition , in 1891 .
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