Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has her own definition of contentment . |
| 2 | I looked around and I hit her such a bloody fourpenny one that I knocked her flying . |
| 3 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 4 | Yours sucks her own boobs . |
| 5 | Her visitors in the Exeter nursing home where she died on 7th December saw all the qualities which made her such a servant of the trade continue unabated to the end — the common sense and humour , the courage , and the huge interest in others . |
| 6 | Her second children 's book , Carrots — Just a Little Boy ( 1876 ) , for instance , which depicted her own family and included an irascible father , was written with great sympathy from the point of view of a six-year-old . |
| 7 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 8 | This family , which was not her own , which threw her own , absent and dispersed , into sharp relief , was certainly kind . |
| 9 | The speaker appears to be generalising to a time which includes her own experience . |
| 10 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 11 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 12 | With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials . |
| 13 | He captured her in a variety of poses and moods which reflect her many facets : as a grande dame in a hat and fur collar ; as a great courtesan — ‘ Madam Pompadour ’ he called the painting , perhaps deliberately mis-spelling it ; in a wicker chair ; demure in front of the piano ; and he sketched her all the time , with quick , deft strokes . |
| 14 | So to keep the peace , Sara made everyone use her own entrance round the side of the house . |
| 15 | THE story of Kelly Good , the 11-year-old girl who planned her own funeral when her heart and lung transplant failed , moved me to tears . |
| 16 | She led her own , isolated sort of life . |
| 17 | Why did n't she throw her own ? |
| 18 | Of hymns , too , she made her own use . |
| 19 | She made her own decision , " Tom said , reaching into his pocket for his pipe . |
| 20 | She made her own , did she ? |
| 21 | She made her own chutney , and made her own pickles , even though she was at work . |
| 22 | So , when Rune 's English gave way to Danish once more , she made her own translation of the words , inventing the compliments and vows she wanted to hear , feeling her pulse respond more rapidly still as his voice deepened and shook with fervour . |
| 23 | take her yeast down so she made her own bread . |
| 24 | It was then that she realised her own power and made an instant resolve never to abuse it . |
| 25 | She consulted her own solicitor , and wrote back to Prince Philip in the same angry terms , stressing the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 26 | Only then did she impart her own news : that she and Geoffrey were to adopt a baby girl in a month 's time . |
| 27 | Somehow she stumbled to her feet , Suzie forgotten in the horror of the moment , as she sought her own safety . |
| 28 | She checked her own watch . |
| 29 | Diana had always promised her schoolfriend , Carolyn Bartholomew , a room when she got her own apartment . |
| 30 | If you do n't decorate it up like she got her own decorations |