Example sentences of "[adv] in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As already mentioned , after puberty a girl does not stay long in her natal home . |
| 2 | ‘ Beirut … is acquitting herself brilliantly in her new role of tourist ‘ Gateway to the East ’ , ’ Hachette 's Guide to Lebanon boldly announced in 1965 . |
| 3 | Luce followed his lead , not yet clear enough in her own mind to try and provide any answers , or confide what she 'd been thinking . |
| 4 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 5 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 6 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 7 | In the drawing-room he took a great deal of persuading to sit down , and then , when Louise finally joined them , drifting in in her rose-silk dress , Grégoire seemed so overcome that he forgot to rise . |
| 8 | This was not the moment to tell Ingrid to strain less in her upper registers , or to remind Luiza to allow plenty of time when she had to walk on in the ball scene . |
| 9 | Once she heard the sound of the Holy Ghost , which was like a pair of bellows in her ear , though it later turned into the sound of a dove , then of a robin that sang only in her right ear . |
| 10 | Dressed only in her thin nightgown , she had no intention of entering the room , just of poking her head into the doorway to yell for peace and quiet . |
| 11 | She sat down in her usual corner . |
| 12 | " Well , if you do n't tell , I wo n't … " she smiled and then , tilting his head down in her small hands , kissed him . |
| 13 | A wild , violent delight that had intolerable hunger as its other side spasmed through her as the deep , slow throb low down in her slender body became a pounding , yearning ache that must be soothed , or she thought she would die . |
| 14 | The people clapped enthusiastically as Angela tripped along in her red mack and hood , with Bully — looking just like a wolf — padding behind her . |
| 15 | A few minutes later , on a causeway beside the bridge , a walker found Mrs McGurk 's handbag — he saw a prescription inside in her maiden name , Potts . |
| 16 | Mrs X encompasses science at the moment entirely in her interdisciplinary topic work . |
| 17 | Her fingers touched the wallet , now tucked away in her inner pocket , and she made up her mind to confide in Susan . |
| 18 | There was Cleopatra simpering away in her best Shirley Temple voice , ‘ Old gentleman , … do n't go , old gentleman ’ , and the spot could n't find her . |
| 19 | Its only significant concession to opponents of abortion was a clause which required parental notification in the case of young women under the age of 18 , although notification could be waived if a doctor concluded that it was not in her best interest . |
| 20 | Henrietta ( Hetty to her friends , of whom Liz was not one ) embarrassed her , she could never say why : she represented pain , failure , tedium , though not in her own person : somehow , magically , she managed to transfer these attributes to those with whom she conversed , while herself remaining poised and indeed complacent , secure of admiration . |
| 21 | Alice stood smiling , disappointed in him , if not in her own state ; she was still floating . |
| 22 | She could n't possibly have let herself get tangled up in the arms of Rourke Deveraugh , not in her wildest dreams . |
| 23 | Her husband , also a compositor , died six years later leaving her with three young children , and she was obliged to go back to work ( at Macdonalds in London Road , not in her previous job at Morrison & Gibb ) until she was over 50 , by which time her children were all supporting themselves . |
| 24 | Not in her later years , certainly not , no . |
| 25 | Thus in her Physical Geography King ( 1980a ) adopts a systems framework in combination with an emphasis upon three scales of investigation and treats local-scale studies and continental-scale studies , and global-scale studies separately . |
| 26 | Ruth knew it all already in her eleven-year-old bones . |
| 27 | she said she wanted her jeans ironed and I er pressed them and then when I she came downstairs in her black trousers and |
| 28 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 29 | She remains a popular saint , not just in her native Peru , but until very recently in Europe also . |
| 30 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |