Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am her current beau . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm her general factotum . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's me mum , and I 'll try anything for me mum , and Lourdes is what she wants , and I 'm her only son , and I ca n't bear watching it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm her youngest son , ’ Travis replied , as though to explain why his mother should worry so about him . |
| 5 | I was her oafish idiot of a son who could n't be expected to make a success of anything — not even of his marriage . ’ |
| 6 | I was her dear mother 's friend … a special relationship … . |
| 7 | I was born in Hampstead at 10.00 pm. on a Tuesday night and my Mother was very glad to see me , because I was her first boy ; she had already produced two girls with the help of my Father and as the years rolled on she gave birth to another two boys . |
| 8 | She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh , what a struggle she had to show ii . |
| 9 | Ultimately , I decided that this was not getting us anywhere , but I was her last hope . |
| 10 | Whatever her feelings towards her family , she was my reluctant hostess and I was her reluctant guest . |
| 11 | Stella I 've mentioned ; Stella I was her full title , she would be sitting at the bar , and then later , Stella II would be sitting there beside her . |
| 12 | ‘ Actually she — she sent me to see that you are all right because — after all — you 're her late husband 's son and — and … ’ |
| 13 | If she were her normal self she would be pottering happily around Simone , laughing whenever she got in her way and sticking her fingers in the food . |
| 14 | ‘ You were her guilty secret . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I imagine you were her first love ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Though I know the Princesse loves you as if you were her own child . |
| 17 | She 's her own person . ’ |
| 18 | Not this one — she 's twelve years of age and she 's her own mistress . |
| 19 | Sister Casualty handled them all magnificently , each patient differently , and yet each one as if he or she was her sole reason for taking up nursing . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , that was a nice little scene I interrupted , ’ she said , glaring at Claudia as if she was her mortal enemy . |
| 21 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 22 | She certainly did not live in the shadow of John ; she was her own person and deserved to be described as more than a widow . |
| 23 | He had said he might be late , after all , and she decided to snatch a few more moments of privacy to recharge her batteries in the one place in the whole luxurious house where she was able to relax and feel she was her own person . |
| 24 | But behind everything she did was a raw power that emphasised she was her own woman . |
| 25 | Maybe Vanessa Vail was n't such a bad fantasy after all : she might die , but at least she was her own woman . |
| 26 | She was her matter-of-fact self again the moment Clarissa clung to her and really cried . |
| 27 | ‘ We are her close friends and it is the last thing we would do . |
| 28 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 29 | And because she happens to live reasonably near a park , she walks Sandy or Sandy walks her in the park , she meets other dog walkers and they are her human contacts . |
| 30 | They are her stalwart supporters in a dosed , oppressive world . |