Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would never again have so much rapt attention focused upon her , and she stood silent , until one lady , younger than most of those present , started to rummage in her handbag for a cigarette . |
| 2 | The disgust she felt almost paralysed Comfort for a moment , before she started to fumble in her bag for a handkerchief . |
| 3 | So the following afternoon , as soon as Mrs Wormwood had departed in her car for another session of bingo , Matilda set out for Fred 's house to investigate . |
| 4 | He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover 's eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to love . |
| 5 | How ironic that someone who had held her spellbound as a child and had lingered in her imagination for years should have turned out to be so arrogantly cold and superior . |
| 6 | Over to Mary 's quarters he went , while Alice remained locked in her apartment for fear of the plague of adders which her husband assured her infested the grounds . |