Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " 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 does some translation from French . |
| 5 | In her spare time she managed to complete her Master of Education degree , writing a thesis on African education . |
| 6 | In her spare time she makes and decorates cakes of different shapes and sizes for all occasions . |
| 7 | In her spare time she writes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In her frantic anxiety she began rubbing her eyes and then her dripping nose as if trying to flatten both into her skull . |
| 11 | In her shocked silence he told her Pascoe had been found dead that morning but no one could get details . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In her first school she had been considered outstanding at maths , and had obtained six grade As in her nine O levels . |
| 14 | ( 74 ) In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden … |
| 15 | In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently . |
| 16 | Early in her first premiership it caused her a moment of acute embarrassment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In her incisive essay she nips a few Icons of Feminist Art Theory in the ankle . |
| 20 | In her right hand she weighed something which made a strange metallic click-click sound . |
| 21 | Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The all-enveloping darkness made her progress difficult but in her emotional state she staggered on . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In her other essay she considers the theme of female deceptiveness in those scriptures , arguing that it is the text itself which is deceptive through its failing to name the real problem : namely that the power relations which pertained between men and women forced women to seek to obtain their ends through underhand means , while at the same time the deviousness of women is used to justify their inferior position . |
| 26 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 27 | In her incensed whisper she called me names I did n't understand . |
| 28 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
| 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 . |