Example sentences of "she [vb past] her [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But that was until she met her Johnny ( and that was his christian name ) . |
2 | Erika dressed soberly , too , although , in an uncharacteristic act of defiance , she pinned her F.G.Y. badge on to her lapel . |
3 | She made her London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1963 and in the same year sang her first Angel in Gerontius with the Hallé Orchestra , a work with which she became closely associated . |
4 | To this end , she created her Anti-Frown Plasters ( aka Able-Labels ) . |
5 | She described her H.N. experience as ‘ not her tot of rum ’ . |
6 | She urged on the days until the chance o f their transfer away , she wrote waspy letters to her mother three times a week , and whenever possible she badgered her Yuri to take her to the shops at Pot'ma . |
7 | The eldest sister died five years ago and up to the age of eighty-two she drove her Aston Martin from Duns to Glasgow , twice a week at eighty miles an hour , to take an interest in the family business . |
8 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |
9 | She arranged her pennies in. front of her . |
10 | She heard her Phoebe sounding ugly and fierce . |
11 | Topping the list is Barbara Piasecka-Johnson , who does not really count : she inherited her $550m fortune from her husband , chairman of America 's Johnson and Johnson company , whom she met while working as a maid in his house . |
12 | The woman 's ordeal began shortly before 8pm on Tuesday when she slowed her Vauxhall Astra car for two youths who were pushing a dark blue or black Ford Escort across the road . |
13 | She called her Fran . ’ |
14 | She called her Cal — usually it was Caroline , disapproving . |
15 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
16 | I put , Marie Ann gave her daughter a Valium before she took her driving test . |
17 | How much it meant to us when she brought her Waterford tumbler up onto the stage with her , settled her feathers and her sequins and then looked calmly round until there was complete silence . |
18 | Unfortunately , he soon realized , she saw her Pernod as a prelude to an evening somewhere else . |
19 | In 1919 she completed her London doctoral thesis ( submitted in 1929 ) , ‘ Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages ’ , drawing on her first-hand knowledge of south , central , and east Africa . |
20 | She still said nothing to her family when she got home , but the next day she put her London house on the market . |
21 | She said her Hague was skipping the odd stitch . |
22 | She grudged the muffling of the violin as she dragged her Fair Isle jersey over her head . |
23 | But last night , as she left her New York apartment , she said angrily : ‘ It 's not true . ’ |