Example sentences of "in [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | In vain she had pleaded and begged him to use the train . |
| 2 | In vain she may cry , as Gregor Samsa does to his parents , sister and employer , that the same person is there inside , looking out in the same way at the world . |
| 3 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 4 | Only the grandmother seemed above it all , but in private she confided that the atmosphere of bickering recrimination made her feel sad and insecure . |
| 5 | In public she insisted that gambling was the worst of all vices , much worse than alcoholism , and Bernard , a risk-taker perhaps , was no gambler . |
| 6 | There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness . |
| 7 | In Good she played the hero 's senile , wheelchair-bound elderly mother ( ‘ I had nothing on my face and had to use a toilet on stage ’ ) , shrieking asperities at her hapless son as he wrestled with the temptations of Nazism . |
| 8 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |
| 9 | In short she obtained a remarkable degree of autonomy . |
| 10 | herself short and in short she ai n't free When |
| 11 | She is not a home help or a hospital ancillary worker , in short she does not work , she is not in a trade union , so she will not read our journals . |
| 12 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 13 | In general she was functioning at an 18-month to 2-year level . |
| 14 | But in particular she recalls the time she first saw Kylie . |
| 15 | Memento Mori in particular she considers a great blow for old age , full of vigorous famous actors aged over 70 and in some cases over 80 . |
| 16 | In particular she did so for clients for whom support worker help was envisaged . |
| 17 | In particular she disliked men , because her political analysis revealed them to be oppressors , and responsible as a sex for many of the worst aspects of our civilization ( war , the arms race , the stock exchange , rape , science , motor cars , additives to food , defoliants , hospital management of childbirth , competitions , multinational companies , cosmetics , pornography and vivisection ) . |
| 18 | No , what I meant was , it was me in particular she was n't happy to see . ’ |
| 19 | In particular she made the acquaintance of Jimmy Webb , her seventeen-year-old assistant , who she quickly realised was a mine of information about absolutely everything that was going on . |
| 20 | In particular she won a great deal of sympathy last January when she appeared on national television with Bill Clinton as he faced allegations of extra-marital dalliance with a singer . |
| 21 | She was not sure herself how much in earnest she was , at that stage ; and if she had had any other agreeable reading matter to fill up her evening , she might never have started on Aurae Phiala at all . |