Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |
| 2 | She could cancel the bank loan and salt away her redundancy money and pick up her plans to start her own business as soon as the eighteen months were up . |
| 3 | It would be unkind to attribute this decision to her intention to publish her own diaries . ) |
| 4 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 5 | Her little heart-shaped face was lost amidst the abundance of black hair , her nose was too big , and her mouth with the upper lip thinner than the lower showed her determination to have her own way . |
| 6 | British irritation was increased by the suspicion that McNamara was deliberately trying to wean Britain away from her nuclear special relationship with the United States , and from her determination to maintain her own independent nuclear deterrent , which embarrassed American foreign policy towards Europe . |
| 7 | Before 823 , there is no mention of Judith 's influence : assorted scraps of evidence thereafter attest her efforts to bolster her own position by collaborating closely ( some said , too closely ) with her husband 's chief counsellors . |
| 8 | The feel of his warm flesh under her finger gave her such an odd surge of panic that she retracted her hand as if she 'd been burnt . |
| 9 | She handed Desmond his tea , and allowed her daughter-in-law to fetch her own . |
| 10 | Molly Pargeter , a woman of forty , whose hair was kept in place with difficulty , might have looked like one of the larger Graces in the paintings she admired had not her size caused her such embarrassment that she lowered her head and stooped a little as she walked . |
| 11 | The irony of her situation struck her several times over during the following few days . |
| 12 | In a society where a woman 's very livelihood depends on her affiliation to a man , her ability to determine her own life 's course is negligible . |
| 13 | I imagined his grandmother riding high on the camel 's hump , her veils creating her own tent . |
| 14 | The knowledge that her mother loved her was not sufficient to quench her rage , for she felt that she had been made to grow up too soon and had no idea that her mother regretted her own inability to speak openly and lose her temper . |