Example sentences of "[to-vb] in her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words seemed to catch in her throat . |
| 2 | He had never caused her breath to catch in her throat or her mouth to dry with a mixture of hope and dread that he might reach for her . |
| 3 | I turn back to Rachel to nestle in her warmth . |
| 4 | This time his fingers seemed to tighten in her hair , drawing her mouth like a prisoner against his . |
| 5 | When we asked who had won , we were told it was a pet dog called , but her owner , , would love to come in her place . |
| 6 | Celia began to write in her notebook . |
| 7 | The strange , wild feeling that usually drove her down to the sea was beginning to thump in her bosom . |
| 8 | Her regular shopping trip to get the food for the Sabbath was something she always enjoyed as the prelude to the best part of the week with its special evening meal , its rituals , her zeide 's stories of his life in Lithuania — no matter how oft repeated — and of course not having to go to work in her father 's store . |
| 9 | Tempted to hide in her room and avoid meeting him until the meal was served , she knew she must not . |
| 10 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 11 | Although we do feel sympathy for Blanche she seems to wallow in her self pity . |
| 12 | Her heart seemed to swell in her chest — she could not get her breath ! |
| 13 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |
| 14 | In Elizabeth 's third novel , A View of the Harbour ( 1947 ) , Beth , a novelist and the first artist to appear in her work , is a woman who seldom goes out of her house , and every time she does so , it is to see the world with the new vision of a convalescent . |
| 15 | Emily left the house , her mind in a turmoil , she could n't allow Hari to stand in her way , the girl was refusing her offer out of sheer pride , Emily was certain of it . |
| 16 | It is less evident that such a strategy would appeal to the daughter of a tradesman , who might after all be able to serve in her father 's shop , or to the daughter of a white-collar worker , to whom the printing trade might appear to be a step down in the world in some respects : inky and dirty , even if requiring literacy . |
| 17 | Miss Ellis flinched and glanced in the rear view mirror but continued to talk in her calm , professional voice while Gilly picked at the bits of gum stuck in her straggly hair and on her cheeks and chin . |
| 18 | It kept her from worry and it kept her from settling down to write those applications which would lead to progress in her career of serious music . |
| 19 | The future housewife is encouraged to participate in her mother 's domestic activities — to help with the washing up , make the beds or lay the table . |
| 20 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 21 | She moved away when he sat near her , went into town to change her library books instead of going home when he invented a string of excuses that would enable him to walk in her direction . |
| 22 | The plan that was now beginning to hatch in her mind depended , however , upon whether or not Fred 's parrot was really as good a talker as Fred made out . |
| 23 | The purpose of both versions of Rolle 's Meditations on the Passion is the same : to stimulate that penance and love which can bridge the gap between man and God — a gap that Julian was to express in her realisation that in her longing for God " nothyng letted me but synne , and so I beheld generally in us al " . |
| 24 | I ca n't hear myself think ! ’ she tried to say , but once again the words seemed to stick in her throat and come out as a croak . |
| 25 | Words seemed to stick in her throat . |
| 26 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 27 | It was as Ling had said — she had only to look in her heart to see Silas . |
| 28 | She wrote that note while pretending to look in her handbag . |
| 29 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 30 | She has won prizes for ( drama/music/essay-writing/cookery/coming top of her class in school , been awarded the first grade in music/drama , studied nursing/teaching/ballet/ice-skating/ French and management/ interviewing/ accounting , learned how to drive/ski/sail/swim/dance/surf/ , followed her interests in travelling/bridge-playing/ opera/the orchestra/film and reading science fiction/ historical novels/biographies , as well as finding time to raise money for charity/do voluntary work with handicapped children/attend church functions regularly/ design clothes/paint/draw and to help in her family 's shop/business/company/restaurant . |