Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " 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 | Leonora quivered , her teeth caught in her lower lip as he kissed each breast in turn , his lips lingering over their slight curves . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had a thick brown walking-stick in her right hand and she 'd hooked it around a handle on the door-frame . |
| 11 | She was suited in her new position but she missed the children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Susie idly jotted names of friends in her rough book when she was lost . |
| 14 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She scolded him then , in her cheerful way that she knew he did n't mind . |
| 17 | She had never responded to any man in her whole life as she did to Felipe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was terror in her white face as she saw this . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ A few months ago she was in her full health and it was you we were worried about , ’ Michael cried . |
| 24 | For all her capriciousness , Liza was aware of the importance of time-keeping in her particular job and she was waiting for Captain Nash as he emerged from the conference hut a little before the appointed hour . |
| 25 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 26 | She could hear the doubt in her own voice as she remembered the gum-chewing , spiky-haired teenager whom she had seen watering the plants . |
| 27 | Steve sat as mute as herself but she was so wrapped up in her own misery that she did n't question why he was so quiet . |
| 28 | She was such a heroine in her own way because it was not possible to give her the attention and comfort she deserved yet she never complained . |
| 29 | And in whatever enterprise he was engaged there , in that far-off region she had never seen , and never would see , where his heart was , she knew in her own heart that it could not be less than glorious . |
| 30 | The Hospice sitting service helped Miss Farndale 's family during her illness ; offering support to look after her in her own home until he died . |