Example sentences of "to [v-ing] her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the self-denial of the musician who devotes all her time and energy to mastering her musical instrument . |
| 2 | Diana later realized that Camilla saw Charles 's love of hunting as a conduit to maintaining her own friendship . |
| 3 | When it came to revealing her personal likes and dislikes , Joanne was not a girl of many words . |
| 4 | Julia , accustomed for years to keeping her own counsel , listened but did not reciprocate . |
| 5 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 6 | Even to refusing her new boots . |
| 7 | SYLVESTRA le Touzel , best-known perhaps as Fanny Price in the television version of Mansfield Park , is a fine actress who has turned her acute eye and pen to caricaturing her fellow actors . |
| 8 | Her season began unpromisingly with an attack of shingles which kept her out of action for a couple of weeks but she recovered quickly and so completely that in addition to compiling her formidable record on the golf course , she was able to cope more than adequately with her school exams . |
| 9 | It is in these brief intimate scenes that Ashton exploits the difference between youth fulling in love and experience demanding it , because Natalia is used to getting her own way . |
| 10 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |
| 11 | Used to getting her own way with her father over most of the other things she desired , Freddie 's initial take-it-or-leave-it attitude had simply fuelled her determination . |
| 12 | She looked like a lady who was used to getting her own way , Lucinda considered . |
| 13 | This girl was too used to getting her own way , but now she had stepped over an invisible line and she did n't even know it . |
| 14 | Prior to sharing her young mistress 's lessons , she received instruction in deportment and etiquette . |
| 15 | She had no real objection to the change of roles or to chaperoning her own servant — to her it would be another adventure . |
| 16 | Jodie Riddell , owner of the very sweet Wolfer ( Sam 's ‘ girlfriend ’ ) , came close to losing her 18-month-old pet on a busy street — after they 'd moved to the hostel . |
| 17 | ‘ A jubilant Mrs Thatcher ( waving stick ) outside No.10 prior to starting her sixth term . ’ |
| 18 | She was also a young person well accustomed to having her own way — there was no doubt of that . |
| 19 | She told me she was looking forward to controlling her own home and her own destiny . ’ |
| 20 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 21 | It was a year during which Joan came near to forgetting her humble origins — the fact that she was the orphaned daughter of a washerwoman . |