Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The feminist arguments in favour of dialogic forms of language use helped her to clarify her own reasons for employing discursive metaphor and parody , and the gendering by feminists of the notion of the ‘ bad copy ’ enabled her to incorporate her own techniques of mis-representation into a readily recognizable social context . |
2 | They had not even let her keep her own loneliness but had intruded on it . |
3 | For her part , Rachaela tried not to curb the child , but let her go her own wild , silent way . |
4 | Let her have her own way ? ’ |
5 | Rachaela allowed her to choose her own colours . |
6 | He was the only brother who allowed her to live her own life . |
7 | are provided by a range of resources available to the learner , permitting her to find her own answers . |
8 | It 's best to let her go her own way . |
9 | Although she dislikes her father 's will — not to let her choose her own husband — she has no intention of rebelling against it . |
10 | Tell her to find her own dybbuk , I snarl into Rainbow 's ear . |
11 | This reflects , she claims , man 's attitude toward woman in general , split between the ‘ Pygmalion urge ’ to form her to suit his own desire and the ‘ demolition enterprise ’ ( 1991a:247 ) . |
12 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
13 | I took her through school , I sent her to college , I married her off and then I made her take her own life . |
14 | ‘ Three of them raped her , one first forced his hand into her at knifepoint and then made her lick her own blood . |
15 | She could n't help but wonder why fate had insisted that these two powerful men should have insisted on using her to gain their own ends — her father for a return to power and motor racing , Ace for sex , because she now realised he 'd wanted her all along . |
16 | It horrified her to hear her own voice screaming at her husband for his indolence but she could not help herself . |
17 | It had shaken her to see her own first name being written like that by an invisible hand . |
18 | The feminist arguments in favour of dialogic forms of language use helped her to clarify her own reasons for employing discursive metaphor and parody , and the gendering by feminists of the notion of the ‘ bad copy ’ enabled her to incorporate her own techniques of mis-representation into a readily recognizable social context . |
19 | The linguistic style of the middle-class housewife more easily permits her to describe her own individual feelings about housework than does that of her working-class counterpart . |
20 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
21 | ‘ I hope we 'll allow her to make her own mistakes , ’ says Kathie . |
22 | I could n't let her have her own way every time , however , otherwise she 'd end up training me ! |
23 | His absences , and an impending change , forced her to face her own feelings . |
24 | Legally this entitled her to choose her own curators — which in this case meant her regent . |
25 | Charlotte could imagine her discussing her own imperfections , if the subject should arise , with the same critical precision . |
26 | That was another thing — it did n't help her to maintain her own sense of proportion when the rest of the world treated Luke Hunter as if he were some kind of royalty … |