Example sentences of "for her own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amy has also learned to take responsibility for her own happiness , rather than trusting Joe to invest and harvest it for her . |
| 2 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 3 | It was the seal of approval for her own judgement . |
| 4 | Laura would have approved of their aims , which almost a century later , stood as a beacon for her own philosophy ; they were ‘ to protest against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the body , impedes movement or injures health … and to promote the adoption according to individual taste and convenience of a style of dress based upon considerations of health , comfort and beauty and to deprecate the constant changes of fashion that can not be recommended on any of these grounds . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps she could use his skills for her own advantage . |
| 6 | And was his cryptic message supposed to imply forgiveness for her own error — or some kind of apology for his own ? |
| 7 | Kathleen Lavender lay awake and feared for her own sanity . |
| 8 | She was a gaudy advert for her own talents ; her shaved skull crawling with tattoos that curled down her neck and back like hair . |
| 9 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 10 | For Diana to become Patron of Relate was an exceptionally brave thing to do when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage |
| 11 | Then she sent Nara to fetch the things she would need : a piece of rope the length of the space between her hands when she held out her arms ; a supple willow twig , the length of the space between Nara 's hands : a sprig of the dā telo bush in flower : and some wheat flour and tobacco for her own payment . |
| 12 | She writes concerning the subscription for her own work : |
| 13 | The enforced retirement from academic life proved valuable in other respects as the next decade became a prolific one for her own work . |
| 14 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 15 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 16 | She paid for her own ticket , as it turned out . |
| 17 | Having by her haphazard diplomatic behaviour dug a pit for her own feet , Austria needed only a push to send her tumbling . |
| 18 | However , some fabrics to which Laura now aspired were , she knew , too lavish for her own company to produce . |
| 19 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 20 | They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court . |
| 21 | Their mother was known to be at high risk herself given the family history , and we were keen to offer her both counselling and screening for her own benefit . |
| 22 | Ariel wept and nearly stumbled , for her own leg was sore too , but she kept on going , determined to take Sycorax away from the men who were camping in their compound , drawing water from the stream , building fire on their hearthstones , and beginning to roast a spitted shoat to eat . |
| 23 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 24 | It was a chilling thought that the very circumstances she was using for her own purpose accorded only too well with the Empress 's schemes . |
| 25 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 26 | For her own for her own daughter 's wedding . |
| 27 | Out of view of the front window , in the last light of a late February sun , Dorothea Shottery wept a little , for her own loneliness and for the absence of her friend . |
| 28 | Not that his mousey little wife was any match for her own looks and personality , Amanda thought contemptuously . |
| 29 | It was perhaps evidence of some restraint that Elena did not oblige Romanians to praise her for her own inventions , but only those expropriated from others . |
| 30 | Abruptly he left her , the bed lifting as he rose , and began to stride up and down the floor while Meredith frantically searched for her own clothes , her eyes warily on him . |