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 !
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