Example sentences of "in her own [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Heaving over to one elbow just in time not to drown in her own effluent , Jezrael was so involved with her physical self that it was only after a moment that she noticed the base of one wall oozing forward to cover her vomit . |
2 | We have no wish to threaten Transworld , or indeed anyone else , but if Arrow 's number two position in Alex Hamilton 's Guardian analysis of 1992 's top paperback sellers to Corgi 's number one slot is not at least a challenge to them then I can think of now other way of restoring Sarah 's belief in her own foresight . |
3 | Cancer was diagnosed only eight months earlier , and Madeleine held a strong conviction she could find a way of helping in her own healing . |
4 | However , Madeleine kept up a spirit of personal participation and deep involvement in her own healing . |
5 | By precisely wallowing in her own guilt and self pity she then needs to heighten her self esteem . |
6 | She was being seduced by her employer , a man she barely knew — and , what was more , she was colluding in her own seduction . |
7 | In her own interests she must keep quiet . ’ |
8 | But then William had had to build the castle because he had permitted the defeated Harold 's widow to remain in her own hall . |
9 | ‘ He left her lying there motionless in her own hall , the walls spattered with her blood , lying on her back and he carried on with his plan to steal , ’ Mr Burke said . |
10 | Harvey may refuse the usual ‘ women 's role ’ but she has taken the indie scene by storm by writing some starkly troubled sexual vignettes while sounding as if she 's profoundly at ease in her own skin . |
11 | Unfortunately it was making Charity feel like a stranger in her own skin . |
12 | [ Remove the original signature with solvent and replace it with the legitimate owner 's name in her own handwriting . |
13 | 91 year old Hilda Jones was left with a broken jaw , cheekbone and arm after being beaten up in her own bathroom . |
14 | ‘ And the old sister , the one who drowned in her own tub of water ? |
15 | ‘ as if I 've got such important things to do tomorrow morning , ’ Jo grumbled through her giggles in her own voice . |
16 | They are Carrie saying ‘ What if … ? ’ and not the author raising possibilities in her own voice . |
17 | The author in her own voice would have had to write something like ‘ the next day ’ : |
18 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
19 | The words ‘ Rarefied atmosphere , yes ? ’ spoken in her own voice , returned to bother her . |
20 | She could hear the doubt in her own voice as she remembered the gum-chewing , spiky-haired teenager whom she had seen watering the plants . |
21 | She had n't meant to shout , and the rage and frustration in her own voice shocked her . |
22 | She spoke boldly , in her own voice . |
23 | ‘ I 'd try to reason with him , ’ she said at last , hating the faint betraying tremor in her own voice . |
24 | Biting her lip , she looked away from his dark , probing eyes , hating the obvious bitterness in her own voice . |
25 | She became a wealthy and , in her own part of the world , a famous woman — perhaps the only wet-nurse in history to have a place named alter her : the Wiltshire parish of Knoyle Hodierne . |
26 | Yes , the footsteps were the ones she heard every night in her own part of the Castle . |
27 | Nor is it likely that either she or her children were set aside when he married Emma , although she was possibly provided with an establishment in her own part of the world , perhaps Northampton , and expected to stay there . |
28 | Liz attempted her first sketch of her mother , her first outline for the outside world of the domestic ghost with which she had lived so long : Alix spoke of her relief at escaping from the small boarding school world in which her parents and her contemporaries all knew one another far too well : Esther conjured up visions of both deprivation and splendour in her own past . |
29 | Luke was speaking again — and this time the eyes were turning in her own direction . |
30 | It was only when the other girl paused in the middle of saying something and turned an enquiring face in her own direction , eyebrows raised enquiringly , a patronising smile on her flawless countenance , that Rune appeared to recollect her existence ! |