Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 . |
| 2 | It was a pleasure to wear her former clothes again ; fashions had changed so little that Selene had contrived very well . |
| 3 | Twelfth-century romances make it plain that for a noblewoman to suckle her own child implied a quite exceptional degree of love . |
| 4 | Now , though , a wife has her own tax allowances and can make refund claims in her own name . |
| 5 | So that each member of staff got a chance to give her own opinion , the staff were interviewed individually . |
| 6 | A woman accused of hiring a hitman to murder her former boyfriend has denied that she wanted him killed . |
| 7 | Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space . |
| 8 | But Roddick sees her expanding retailing network as a means to spread her own deep beliefs about the environment and Third World issues , educating both employees and customers . |
| 9 | Only when she stretched out a hand to replace her own receiver did Fabia realise that she was shaking . |
| 10 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
| 11 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs. Stevenson ! ’ he called , with a surprise to match her own . |
| 13 | When someone eats a snack while mentally absorbed in other things — perhaps a mother grabbing her own meal in between attempts to coax food down a baby , or a viewer eating a TV snack while totally involved in the latest beastly plots of ‘ J.R . ’ |