Example sentences of "[verb] in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she wanted was to get this whole thing over with , so she could go home to Kentish Town and sleep in her own bed . |
| 2 | She enjoys hiking and walking in her spare time , and also looks forward to her annual skiing expedition . |
| 3 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
| 4 | The importance of Kittay 's formulation lies in her wide definition of the type of linguistic unit that can be labelled metaphoric . |
| 5 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 6 | Oh , Leo ! ’ she exclaimed helplessly as she looked at him , a plea for understanding in her lovely eyes . |
| 7 | Amusement lurking in her dark eyes , because that 's what people always said , Ellie signed the bill , thanked the waitress , gave her a warm smile , added a little tip , and went out to wait for Donal . |
| 8 | She smiles , and two dimples appear in her pasty cheeks , still shiny from last night 's application of face cream . |
| 9 | Her small white teeth drew in her upper lip as his hand stroked so erotically , his thumb tracing circles of white heat . |
| 10 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 11 | It took , by her own admission , six years before she felt comfortable appearing in her starring role . |
| 12 | Yet while Liz , the good daughter , the dutiful daughter , was taking a deep hot bath on New Year 's Eve before changing for her party , Shirley the rebel was serving up a hot meal for her mother in the old house in Abercorn Avenue before rushing back ( without appearing to rush ) to see what was happening in her own oven at home , where she was cooking a goose for her husband Cliff , his brother Steve and his wife Dora , her own mother- and father-in-law , and Dora 's Uncle Fred . |
| 13 | She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 15 | This is always a surprising development from the point of view of those close to her , but if you are faced with this reaction in your elderly parent , or any other that seems strange but harmless , tread softly , and accept the fact that she must be allowed to grieve and to adjust in her own way . |
| 16 | ‘ Indeed he is not , ’ Feargal 's mother protested in her gentle way . |
| 17 | For the moment , Mrs Davis appears to be trapped in her decaying home , surrounded by builders . |
| 18 | Trapped in her own loneliness , suicide had begun to dominate her thoughts . |
| 19 | She was taking a risk , for Constance sometimes rejoiced in her gipsy blood and sometimes deplored it . |
| 20 | Her results and theories were summarized in her two-volume work , Floral Morphology ( 1937–9 ) . |
| 21 | The words ‘ Rarefied atmosphere , yes ? ’ spoken in her own voice , returned to bother her . |
| 22 | That most glamorous of all the angels of the hearth , who had come in her little pillbox hat to preside over the purest and most gracious of all houses , the White House . |
| 23 | She could stew in her own juice . |
| 24 | Though she was wishing that , after all , she 'd taken a seat , for she suspected he was rather enjoying letting her stew in her own juice . |
| 25 | Folly lay motionless , secretly revelling in her unaccustomed passivity , and watching him through half-closed eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ Art is on the side of the oppressed , ’ she writes in her stimulating book of essays , The Essential Gesture . |
| 27 | Suzanne Garment writes in her recent book Scandal : ‘ The great American scandal machine that we have built for ourselves is up and running with ferocious momentum . ’ |
| 28 | Delighted to find in her Venetian exile someone else who had spent the war in London , Julia sat down beside Mrs Suvarov . |
| 29 | They were ripe and plump , she reflected , worthy of caress , and the grasped her right bicep in her left hand . |
| 30 | So St Margaret had sat in her empty court feeling neglected for decades . |