Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] her [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would soon be free to go her own way once more , and that was what she wanted , was n't it ? |
| 2 | She would n't have to be dependent on my father any more and she would be free to live her own life . |
| 3 | She wanted to be free to do her own thing — be independent — get a job , perhaps . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was even too dark for her to be able to see her own car . |
| 6 | Because er we do n't know what 's going to happen and she must be able to earn her own living . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It seems impossible that any mother would be able to find her own babe from among such a throng . |
| 11 | Ah well not be able to buy her own . |
| 12 | 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 . |