Example sentences of "[v-ing] her own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheers barmaid , Rebecca , played by Kirstie Alley may be opening her own bar across the street and taking most of the regulars with her . |
| 2 | Others believe that Mrs Aquino , by making a political decision on grounds of national security , is transgressing her own leadership principles . |
| 3 | Marginally more in control , she sauntered back through to the kitchen and handed him the brush , carefully keeping her own fingers clear of his . |
| 4 | Isabel reminded herself that he was mocking her , that his wickedly attractive smile did n't affect her one bit , and that keeping her own expression politely aloof was n't at all difficult . |
| 5 | She had difficulty in keeping her own tears back when Cara asked brokenly , ‘ Could n't you do this one thing for me ? |
| 6 | Julia , accustomed for years to keeping her own counsel , listened but did not reciprocate . |
| 7 | Keeping her own identity together too . |
| 8 | She wrote a highly perceptive appreciation of Burns 's character in the Dumfries Journal ( August 1796 ) and collaborated energetically with Burns 's biographer , James Currie — thereby also effectively protecting her own interests and reputation . |
| 9 | It was true , she had learned important facts from Miss Rose , although Mrs Maybury had only helped by revealing her own anxieties . |
| 10 | It would mean delaying her own departure , when she wanted the break to be swift and clean . |
| 11 | Anna Mann at Whitehead Mann had a background in research and previous experience in another executive search firm before founding her own firm . |
| 12 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
| 13 | It did n't help that , intellectually , I knew that she was reliving her own feelings about the way in which a second child — me — had wrecked her marriage . |
| 14 | Diana later realized that Camilla saw Charles 's love of hunting as a conduit to maintaining her own friendship . |
| 15 | Or if we find that a grand-daughter is assisting her own mother in caring for an elderly parent , whom is the granddaughter helping ? |
| 16 | She found she was thinking small , on the scale of the ark , seeing her own hands huge as those of Gulliver in Lilliput . |
| 17 | Now there was an association of ideas — seeing her own situation in terms of Shakespeare 's Prince of Denmark ! |
| 18 | Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all . |
| 19 | It was amazing really and even , she was eighty two when she died and even then she was knitting her own jumper suits . |
| 20 | ‘ Sara finally gave the game away when she sat in front of her make-up mirror and started singing her own version of that song from Oklahoma ! — ‘ I 've got the dad in the morning and the son at night … ‘ . ’ |
| 21 | Inside McAllister , who was enjoying her own performance as a clumsy hoyden , a wicked devil was laughing itself stupid , until she felt strong hands under her armpits and Dr Neil hoisted her clear of her victim . |
| 22 | There was nothing wrong with enjoying her own interests and social activities — including Martin Ward 's party in a few days ' time . |
| 23 | Zsofia , 15 , has the air of a girl experimenting happily with young womanhood , enjoying her own attractiveness . |
| 24 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 25 | Realising her own love for the same man , there was a sadness in Tilly Mulliver 's voice . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 27 | Before allowing her own words to express her story , it might be helpful to speak of the policy and practice of nearly all missionary societies fifty years ago . |
| 28 | Before the tug arrived the lifeboat attempted to refloat the casualty by using a bow line and turning her to starboard , using her own engine and the jammed rudder . |
| 29 | Is she giving assistance to her grandmother , or is she really helping her own mother to bear a heavy burden ? |
| 30 | When she had undressed and put it on without catching her own eye in the mirror she went back to the other room and dumped the handbag on top of the dressing-table . |