Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made her own decision , " Tom said , reaching into his pocket for his pipe . |
| 2 | She made her own chutney , and made her own pickles , even though she was at work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | take her yeast down so she made her own bread . |
| 5 | Of hymns , too , she made her own use . |
| 6 | It was then that she realised her own power and made an instant resolve never to abuse it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Somehow she stumbled to her feet , Suzie forgotten in the horror of the moment , as she sought her own safety . |
| 9 | She checked her own watch . |
| 10 | Diana had always promised her schoolfriend , Carolyn Bartholomew , a room when she got her own apartment . |
| 11 | If you do n't decorate it up like she got her own decorations |
| 12 | His speech accelerated beyond Charlotte 's comprehension , though she caught her own name — and Beatrix 's — on several occasions . |
| 13 | She stroked her own shoulders . |
| 14 | Incoherent little sounds issuing from her arched throat , she moved her own hand to cover his . |
| 15 | She moved her own hand towards her neck only to have it seized by Rune 's . |
| 16 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 17 | She doubted her own ability to survive that long . |
| 18 | Gay had begun , characteristically , by wishing Susan and Breeze luck in their new home , and it was not until near the end of the letter that she mentioned her own affairs . |
| 19 | She found her own ascent to maturity impeded by her friend 's unexpected display of common sense . |
| 20 | She found her own register in its usual place and then took from the ‘ Tuesday ’ pigeonhole the one marked ‘ Line Drawing and Water-colour ’ . |
| 21 | After a spell at Tie Rack , she found her own niche in socks . |
| 22 | She entered her own No. 3 to find her son reading a copy of Playgoer and Jessie creeping about hanging up costumes . |
| 23 | She felt very unhappy as she entered her own part of Moorlake . |
| 24 | So confident now , so sure of him , she let her own heart speak . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , we 're all Europeans now — are n't we ? ’ she mimicked his own phrasing . |
| 26 | And where Antoinette laid down guidelines — just as she had done when she advised her own daughter on Scottish affairs when Mary of Guise first went to Scotland — her son , the cardinal , filled in the details . |
| 27 | Again she cupped her own mug in both hands and sat there sipping . |
| 28 | She recognised her own line and smiled . |
| 29 | She lifted her own cup , her eyes on the doorway through which the Josephs might come . |
| 30 | The glint from the spear swam in the dark surface of the rock , and , irrelevantly , she noticed her own reflection there — a vague , just-perceptible shape like a shadow . |