Example sentences of "[noun] her own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stella is a wild card both in the deepest recesses of Serena 's own mind and in the domain of middlemen , for Stella is the only character in the novel who is exempt from this status : ‘ Stella was in effect her own middleman , alone in the world , selling her personality , and very badly ’ ( 30 ) . |
| 2 | It 's only natural she should want to be with kids her own age . ’ |
| 3 | The shop-floor seemed strangely silent in the absence of the usual sounds of machinery , hammering and drilling and to Rachel 's disappointment her own centre was also empty . |
| 4 | Shocked is coming to terms with her loss her own way . |
| 5 | It was an option she did n't usually have , kissing a gorgeous man on board her own ship . |
| 6 | Here Lucy was lifted up , and allowed to measure her own corn , using a round wooden pottle measure filled to the brim each time and carefully smoothed off . |
| 7 | But Adam was her own brother , Jake her own father ; she had to do something to find them . |
| 8 | It had the glamour that attaches to other people 's privileges ; Barbara did not resent the lack of advantages her own parents had given her , but she wanted those advantages for her own children . |
| 9 | I 'd made her question her own heart . ’ |
| 10 | Most of his many failures are , mercifully , long forgotten ; but one doomed scheme — to bring England her own silk industry — has left 20th-century cooks and gardeners a rich , if somewhat neglected , legacy . |
| 11 | A trait her own mother seemed to have inherited . |
| 12 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 13 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 14 | She had forgotten the dreadful price her own sisters had paid for that male greed and self-interest . |
| 15 | ’ I think Baroness Faithful should put them up in her own house.Or her own town.Why come here ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ said Tessa , who sees things her own way as resolutely as any baby . |
| 17 | Paul Lane had warned him that Phyllis liked to play things her own way , and now it looked as though she did indeed . |
| 18 | She was n't going to get things her own way . |
| 19 | Madame gave the woman her own address . |
| 20 | A feminist psychologist 's interview with and administering of a questionnaire to a young woman have stronger demand characteristics than they would have with a woman her own age . |
| 21 | How extraordinary that people her own age should believe such grotesque , non-scientific ideas as that a man could be resurrected from the dead after , and a horrible thought it was , after being crucified ; and how fantastic that they should believe that all the dead would rise from their graves — all of them , those countless millions , millions upon millions , rising from the clay into which they had , long since , dissolved … . |
| 22 | She was going to live her life her own way . |
| 23 | When she married a Kent farm labourer her own relatives disowned her : ‘ it was n't a very happy thing , you see , that she married into this family … |
| 24 | For as she pressed back against the front door , trembling and bewildered , she saw what was in substance her own house . |
| 25 | Rachaela thought that the mistake her own mother had made was in her brainwashed attempts to care for and become involved with a child she did not want . |
| 26 | We humans used the bridge , but of course , Sally had to negotiate this dry Derbyshire creek bed her own way . |
| 27 | " My dear , it is God 's will , " Amabel kept on saying because that was the thing her own mother and her dear old nanny — both gone now — had always said to her . |
| 28 | Catherine 's opinions about drugs are much firmer than those of another pop star her own age — Aussie actress turned singer Kylie Minogue . |
| 29 | The only reason her own embarkation had been so hopelessly clumsy was because her limbs were all suddenly shaking like jellies . |
| 30 | A letter was received from Mrs. Hogan of Brighton asking if she could take over a sixteen-year-old blind boy , Arthur B. Her own son had died the previous year at the same age , and she said that she would ‘ do her best to make the lad happy , and find him light work in Brighton ’ . |