Example sentences of "in [det] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was fortunate in that her income came from a family trust fund , so Ralph had never been able to get his hands on the capital . |
| 2 | As Benazir Bhutto was sworn in the news came in that her choice for speaker had been elected in Punjab . |
| 3 | She is the person who runs the home , and in this her position is the same as that of the peasants and craftsmen of former times — for her , too , work and life merge into one another . |
| 4 | Gemma , in this her last moment of being Miss Dallam , did not notice the stir Linnet was creating and would not have minded if she had . |
| 5 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 6 | His Firebird flew and still flies in all her glory before being trapped pitifully in the arms of the Tsarevich . |
| 7 | She had never heard of it in all her time in the house . |
| 8 | He rolled his eyes and tugged at his collar and blew on his finger-nails ; and then Erika felt a sensation she had never known before ; one that in all her life of order , regimentation , structures , and of love and caring , too , it had never occurred to her that she might have . |
| 9 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |
| 10 | While mundane scientists poke and prod at nature with the tools of experiment , astronomers on their mountains simply observe her , in all her heavenly glory . |
| 11 | When Gloria came , pattering across the ward in all her best , Dot could n't bear to see her pretty face and turned away on the pillow with shut eyes . |
| 12 | That little boy is neglected , and all you care about is seeing Madam , here , dressed up in all her bloody finery . ’ |
| 13 | While the ambulance waited , it had to be carefully put away in the cupboard , as she had never in all her life left things draining by the sink . |
| 14 | One grandmother is remembered as taking ‘ a deep interest in all her grandchildren ’ , reading and talking , walking and painting with them ; and when her granddaughter became in turn a mother , it was her belief that |
| 15 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 16 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 17 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 18 | No , in all her novels , she had only used four sentences from life , deliberately lifting them , that is . |
| 19 | She alone was able to start fires , bearing sparks in all her fingers and toes . |
| 20 | And then a swift , burning anger , such as she had never known in all her life , welled up inside her , rose like bile in her throat . |
| 21 | Sitting alone and still grieving , in the one-bedroom bungalow , she did something she had never done in all her 38 years of married life . |
| 22 | I was nine at the time of the wedding and you just could not imagine how foolish I felt , dressed as a bride in all her finery , standing beside a six-year-old and with hundreds of people looking on . |
| 23 | In all her years in St Mary 's Eve Malone had never been seen by the other girls to perform one menial task . |
| 24 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 25 | There , at Portmore , Taylor completed what he regarded as his greatest work , Ductor Dubitantium , or The Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures , Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Consciences , This work is a manual of casuistry which occupies over 1300 pages of close print . |
| 26 | My aunt had a dancing school for many , many years and I appeared in all her plays , and at school I appeared in school plays and I was very proud when I played Robin Hood . |
| 27 | Restoration by a small team led by Terry Sykes started in 1988 and looking at this dainty locomotive now in all her glory , their efforts have been well rewarded . |
| 28 | Left : G–FURY in all her glory . |
| 29 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 30 | She was a firm favourite of everybody there , a kind , loving , generous woman who never in all her life judged anyone . |