Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis had never shown any real interest in either side of the business and , as far as the shop was concerned , this had meant that Cathy had been free to go her own way under the old man 's eye . |
| 2 | Lucy had been unable to disguise her own amusement . |
| 3 | There is something puzzling here , since Mrs Moore , though an unbeliever , had been happy to have her own daughter confirmed , and there is a steady succession of references in Jack 's letters and diaries , during the years 1919–1931 , of attendance at church with Minto . |
| 4 | The young designer plans to go to fashion college , and has been busy choreographing her own charity fashion shows in the meantime . |
| 5 | So far , she had been able to contain her own grief . |
| 6 | She would soon be free to go her own way once more , and that was what she wanted , was n't it ? |
| 7 | She would n't have to be dependent on my father any more and she would be free to live her own life . |
| 8 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |
| 9 | This habitual restraint produces a docility which woman requires all her life long , for she will always be in subjection to a man , or to man 's judgment , and she will never be free to set her own opinion above his . |
| 10 | It was even too dark for her to be able to see her own car . |
| 11 | Because er we do n't know what 's going to happen and she must be able to earn her own living . |
| 12 | Brenda knew that she would never again be able to wear her own panties , their prettiness contaminated for ever by the memory of this dead unknown girl . |
| 13 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 14 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 15 | It seems impossible that any mother would be able to find her own babe from among such a throng . |
| 16 | Ah well not be able to buy her own . |
| 17 | Even leaving aside Ross 's anger at not being consulted about such an important decision , it would be irresponsible to put her own needs and desires above those of the children . |
| 18 | On a number of issues informed observers were able to distinguish her own preferences from those of most of her Cabinet , hardly a sign of successful political management . |
| 19 | But the Service will allow her time off and she is prepared to make her own arrangements regarding food and accommodation . |
| 20 | At just 17 she is privileged to have her own flat and sports car both courtesy of her celebrity father who also provides her with £200 per week pocket money . |
| 21 | Fostering may be used during hysterectomy re-derivation and in situations where the natural mother is unable to rear her own litter due to her own health , genetic defects , or because the litter is too small to maintain lactation . |
| 22 | She was not very much surprised to see him on his feet and opening the door , but when he swayed and put a hand on the wall to steady himself she was unable to prevent her own hand going out towards him . |
| 23 | I was able to visit her several times and then , in my capacity as literary editor of New Hungarian Quarterly , I was often sent to make contact with poets in America and so on . |
| 24 | On the few occasions when Fernando had some pressing business to attend to she was able to put her own mind to work and make a few valuable contacts for the agency but the majority of her time was spent with her love . |
| 25 | By tacit consent they kept their conversation to motor racing , and as Kate knew a surprising amount about automotive engineering she was able to hold her own in open discussion with him . |
| 26 | She no longer wished nor was able to gain her own ends by military means , the handling of which is , after all , the Chiefs ' raison d'être . |
| 27 | With work on her first feature film The Delinquents behind her and a new collection of singles successfully launched with ‘ Hand On Your Heart ’ topping charts all over the globe , Kylie herself was busy adding her own mystique to this great debate . |