Example sentences of "in her time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 2 | ‘ The artist ’ , she said , ‘ is never accepted in her time . ’ |
| 3 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 4 | Rose of Lima wrote no spiritual works ; influenced , in her time at least , no worldly powers ; reformed no evil Church authorities ; fought no public battles ; and lived anyway in a Third World country thousands of miles from the centre of things . |
| 5 | Leapor 's opinions on marriage are at a very great distance from those of more conventional women poets in her time . |
| 6 | More probable , however , is that Leapor 's female friendships followed the pattern most usual in her time , and that in Bridget Freemantle , Mary Leapor had simply found ’ … a partner in sensibility , a confidante in literature . ’ |
| 7 | ’ Thus , Leapor 's poem may be seen as a comment on the ideology of land use in her time . |
| 8 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 9 | She 'd had some requests made of her in her time but none seemingly as outrageous as this . |
| 10 | She told us that the hominids were quite vulnerable to these carnivores , which in her time included the sabre-tooth cat , and were often killed and eaten . |
| 11 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 12 | She told Chola she 'd heard from someone in Pere that the bull was ill , and she knew she 'd be able to cure it : she 'd treated hundreds in her time and only one had ever died . |
| 13 | He had come to his sister Elizabeth 's rescue in her time of trouble , contributing almost beyond the call of duty ; he had already done what he could to help his young nephew Robert — now what of Benjamin ? |
| 14 | In her time Mother had been almost as |
| 15 | Roz Hatch had been a real looker in her time , and the family portrait said one thing to Cowley above all else : we stick together . |
| 16 | So , over the years there had been a number of leather bags added to those under the loose floor boards beneath the bed in which she now spent her nights and , in her time , expected to die … |
| 17 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 18 | He calls her ‘ an outstanding creative figure in twentieth-century art , and a dominating influence in Irish art in her time ’ ; he praises ‘ her radiant self-confidence ’ , ‘ her austere intellectual vigour ’ and makes no secret of his passionate commitment to the greatness of her artistic achievement . |
| 19 | In her time at the Royal Academy she remembered buskers in the tube , but they played rock or sometimes jazz . |
| 20 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 21 | She had received a few blows in her time , but after the first shock she had swung back . |
| 22 | Dorothy , in her time , had been an active member of an organisation called the Noise Reduction Society , which had campaigned valiantly and indiscriminately against lawnmowers and jet aircraft . |
| 23 | She read her books with an intense concentration — and she learned what Johnny had to do , and of the terrible odds that were stacked against him ; for as she , in her time , moved towards the middle of July , she knew that , for Johnny , it was August ; and in one of her books she learned that it was in August , between the 8th and the 15th , that the most heavily concentrated forces of enemy bombers had been sent against the military installations , and the ports and airfields of Britain . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , she 's been that in her time too . ’ |
| 25 | She was a make-up artist , for goodness ' sake — she 'd seen any number of half-naked male actors in her time , but she 'd never reacted like this before . |
| 26 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 27 | Mrs Cartwright and her little band of the disaffected were shown into his hotel room by the new Party Chairman 's secretary , a formidable woman who had , in her time , served both Cecil Parkinson and Norman Tebbit . |
| 28 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 29 | Church of Scotland deaconess Lynda Wright has met plenty of Shirley Valentines in her time . |
| 30 | She just feels she wanted the time to do it in her time . |