Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 2 | He could no more have overborne her resistance in her present state than he could kick a lame dog . |
| 3 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 4 | Her partners agreed to this unorthodox therapy on condition that it was done in her spare time and she produced an audit after a year . |
| 5 | Her small white teeth drew in her upper lip as his hand stroked so erotically , his thumb tracing circles of white heat . |
| 6 | Leonora quivered , her teeth caught in her lower lip as he kissed each breast in turn , his lips lingering over their slight curves . |
| 7 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 8 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 9 | Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last . |
| 10 | She looks like a nurse in her blue uniform and her scarf over her head . |
| 11 | We were due to record a longish interview with her one afternoon , and over lunch at her favourite restaurant in Basil Street my producer Anthony Rouse and I both asked if there was any subject in her long life that she did not want touched upon . |
| 12 | She had a thick brown walking-stick in her right hand and she 'd hooked it around a handle on the door-frame . |
| 13 | She was suited in her new position but she missed the children . |
| 14 | She looked at Gay , who was an only child too , but who had nobody to give her a good time , and then her glance travelled to Breeze , who had just admitted in her light-hearted fashion that she had no idea of what the future would hold for her . |
| 15 | There seems little doubt that the team suffered badly by being deprived of the services of Ian Gow , a widely-respected , close associate of the Prime Minister who had played a major part in her 1989 campaign and whose murder by the IRA in July had led to the Eastbourne by-election . |
| 16 | Susie idly jotted names of friends in her rough book when she was lost . |
| 17 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 18 | She was not feeling in her sunniest humour as she wondered if she was going to have to wait all day tomorrow for her summons , when someone rang her doorbell . |
| 19 | She scolded him then , in her cheerful way that she knew he did n't mind . |
| 20 | She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant . |
| 21 | She had never responded to any man in her whole life as she did to Felipe . |
| 22 | What I am saying ? she thought wildly , aware of the thumping beat of her heart , the tension in her whole body as she gripped the phone and waited for his curt reply . |
| 23 | There was terror in her white face as she saw this . |
| 24 | ‘ You know , you sure are different from the way I 'd imagined you , ’ she said in her slow drawl as she poured out fresh drinks for them both . |
| 25 | It charts the artist 's career from her highly accomplished art school pieces she received the full encouragement of her parents in her chosen career while her early self portraits demonstrate an artist fully aware of her own powers and potential . |
| 26 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 27 | Pamela 's lack of confidence in her academic ability and her feeling that she was letting her parents down ( 10 months ) . |
| 28 | Salt was making a meal of Jess 's shortcomings and Nancy stared at the new kitchen wench while her mother nodded in her easy-going way as she took off her shawl and recaptured her dropping hairpins . |
| 29 | I could imagine her in her sexiest dress and her most alluring perfume , cooking pasta the way Rick liked it . |
| 30 | ‘ A few months ago she was in her full health and it was you we were worried about , ’ Michael cried . |