Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
2 | In her unsentimental way she loved children , though no one was better aware of their knavish tricks . |
3 | In her absolute despair she cried out , the cry came through her whole shaking body into her voice . |
4 | In her spare time she managed to complete her Master of Education degree , writing a thesis on African education . |
5 | But in her late teens she lost interest . |
6 | Few men living in Leicester were not , Theda reflected , for in her former life she had learned early that this was the best hunting country in England . |
7 | For the first time in her married life she saw pain in her husband 's eyes , as though she had plunged a knife into his body . |
8 | In her frantic anxiety she began rubbing her eyes and then her dripping nose as if trying to flatten both into her skull . |
9 | When she was in her stockinged feet she moved to get out , but Marc was wedged in the doorway , unbuckling his boots . |
10 | In her shocked silence he told her Pascoe had been found dead that morning but no one could get details . |
11 | Now when she saw him drinking , wild-eyed and aggressive , in her inner eye she kept the vision of the distinguished and striking man she knew him to be . |
12 | In her first school she had been considered outstanding at maths , and had obtained six grade As in her nine O levels . |
13 | ( 74 ) In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden … |
14 | In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently . |
15 | Early in her first premiership it caused her a moment of acute embarrassment . |
16 | Tea was very bad for children , Nicandra knew , but in her exhilarated state she accepted it happily , and hoped for a slice of soda-bread to go with it . |
17 | In her great excitement she thrust herself forward and grabbed the older man by the hand , which she shook up and down , crying , ‘ God bless you , sir . |
18 | In her right hand she weighed something which made a strange metallic click-click sound . |
19 | Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump . |
20 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
21 | The all-enveloping darkness made her progress difficult but in her emotional state she staggered on . |
22 | As a four-year-old she won all her four races , including the Coronation Cup , the Champion Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup ; in her other race she started at 55–1 on to defeat a solitary opponent . |
23 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
24 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
25 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
26 | In her incensed whisper she called me names I did n't understand . |
27 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
28 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
29 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
30 | Furious , she glared at her half-empty wine glass , realising that in her abstracted mood she 'd drunk far more than she normally allowed herself to drink . |