Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And when she fell for her thirteenth I said , ‘ Ca n't you get him to leave you alone ’ ( not that that 's what she wanted , knowing her ) , and she said , ‘ Well , what can I do ? |
| 2 | but , they , the way the way they were , they got the , actually the the woman , she 's a girl , she 's a doctor of sociology she 's , she 's barely out of her twenties she 's not |
| 3 | And after that brief excursion into the mysterious tongue of her beloved she said very little else for a considerable time . |
| 4 | Her hand drifted to the back of his head and without any conscious decision of her own it pressed lightly to bring his mouth to her aching , demanding breast . |
| 5 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 6 | Is it possible , ’ wondered the earl , appealing deferentially to Prior Robert 's more profound instruction in things holy , ‘ that for some beneficent purpose of her own she may have transferred herself miraculously from the place where she was laid ? |
| 7 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |
| 8 | Maybe she had tried , but in her sixties she had slumped into forgetfulness . |
| 9 | but erm like Vicky who 's got , in her English folder , this is Vicky Vicky , she 's got in her literature she 's got nine A's and one B and in her other I do n't know what she 's got , ten A's probably , mm she 's not going to , she wants to be a nurse |
| 10 | In her twenties she acted with her husband Jacob Kalich 's Yiddish rep company in Boston , before touring Europe . |
| 11 | In her second , she was recklessly promiscuous , and in her third she met Charles . |
| 12 | In her fifties she began developing an elaborate theory-part religious , part mystical — on the natural supremacy of women and the need to return to a matriarchal society . |
| 13 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 14 | She never tired of seeing a sunset or a flock of geese , and even in her nineties she still marvelled at the beauty of the sea or the quality of light in Dumfriesshire . |
| 15 | He possessed just enough self-control to continue his gentle stroking of her , but both his arms now held her , and almost without her willing it McAllister 's crept around his neck , and unconsciously they sank , from their sitting position , on to the bed , to lie with McAllister 's head on the pillow , Dr Neil 's by her , he careful to lie still , to do nothing which might suggest any kind of bodily union . |
| 16 | This piece of insolence shot out without her willing it . |
| 17 | If she were to ask her father on her own he would give her anything . |
| 18 | Mind she 's very lonely , she 's on her own you know and she 'll talk to anybody |
| 19 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 20 | Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's |
| 21 | I mean when she is , is on her own I presume she 'd go to her room if she wants ? |