Example sentences of "her voice " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 2 | Blithely ignoring the rocking of the little steamer in the lurching Mediterranean swell , the girl with the sun-catching cap of peroxided hair sitting hatless on the wooden bench right in the vessel 's prow lifted her voice in sudden bubbling song . |
| 3 | ‘ Darling , ’ Jilly Jonathan said , her voice ringing out for all to hear , ‘ do n't fug away down there . |
| 4 | There 's none for the tea urns or the washing up or … ’ her voice dropped dramatically . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's not true ! ’ she said , but her voice betrayed her . |
| 6 | she noticed every moment with Lucy , pictured her , listened to the memory of her voice . |
| 7 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
| 8 | Lucy lit another cigarette , drank her wine , and her voice came out as if she was reading a script . |
| 9 | Jay demanded , her voice ugly , feeling so far away she could lose no more , the angrier she grew the further Lucy went ; but when she forced herself to be quiet and good , Lucy still kept her distance . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh — ’ Her voice seemed to choke . |
| 11 | Her voice sounded mechanical as though she were drawing a shutter across her pains and fears . |
| 12 | ‘ Where is the boy gone ? ’ her voice broke in sharply . |
| 13 | ‘ Your business can not hope to succeed , ’ she announced , her voice booming in the narrow space . |
| 14 | Her voice is flat , not bright like five minutes ago . |
| 15 | Her voice changes notes . |
| 16 | In serious songs , when her voice is not working , there is not enough personal extraordinariness to make the lack seem unimportant . |
| 17 | Frances Fielding ( as Juliet ) finds her way through the conceits of Shakespeare 's early verse style intelligibly , and though her voice modulates little from a high , anxious note , her portrayal of Juliet 's final loneliness is still affecting . |
| 18 | Just how rough can be judged by the fact that Annabel Salmon , Eurotunnel 's official spokeswoman , yesterday called off her engagements on the grounds that she has lost her voice . |
| 19 | Her voice was first noticed in choirs in her home town . |
| 20 | The singer , herself , has made a fortune out of the insatiable popular curiosity to watch her perform : leggy , tall and unfailingly feminine , with the controversial husk in her voice . |
| 21 | ‘ That , ’ she said , her voice echoing with the cries of oystercatchers and lapwings over remote beaches where seals rolled and basked inshore , ‘ That is one of the most beautiful films ever made . ’ |
| 22 | Before the 1979 election her public relations adviser , Gordon Reece , coached her to lower her voice , speak slowly , and present a ‘ soft ’ image and tried to arrange television interviews with relatively non-aggressive interviewers . |
| 23 | She heard the invitation , the promise of a future , in her voice and was surprised . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't cope with all this any more , ’ said Phoebe , and there was a screech in her voice . |
| 25 | At the top of her voice . |
| 26 | Maggie 's sobs were becoming more natural , but she still had her arms tight round Phoebe 's neck and her head pressed against Phoebe 's breast and her voice was muffled . |
| 27 | She could hear her mother 's distant laughter and her voice saying faintly , ‘ Rachel , do stop showing off . ’ |
| 28 | As they walked away from him through the greenness , the pale blue above them , Maggie said , her voice thick with emotion , ‘ Daddy is just lovely when he 's like that . ’ |
| 29 | These days her voice and lifestyle belie her upbringing . |
| 30 | Her voice was very low , a slurring mumble . |