Example sentences of "[adj] in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even supposing — just supposing — that any of it was true ; well , it would be quite different in her own case . |
| 2 | Mrs Milnes was clear in her own mind that parental authority was being usurped : |
| 3 | Perhaps she was getting civilized in her old age . |
| 4 | In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place . |
| 5 | Genuinely considerate and sympathetic to others , she is rather disorganised in her day-to-day functioning but has learned to delegate attention to detail and accuracy while she focuses on broader , long-term objectives . |
| 6 | But this man would not be interested in her personal feuds . |
| 7 | Through Miss Hatherby 's dolls and pictures , Constance became increasingly interested in her own clothes — and had rows over them with her mother that often reverberated for days . |
| 8 | Rachel had n't taken a lot of notice of the young SHO — she had been more interested in her own circle of friends at the time — but he had been a frequent visitor at the Stevenses ' home and she knew her parents had liked him and had been pleased at the prospect of him becoming their son-in-law . |
| 9 | At home on the Isle of Wight , Becky is more interested in her 5th birthday coming up this Saturday . |
| 10 | ‘ Madam 's getting popular in her old age . |
| 11 | Meredith 's cheekbones stood out raw in her pale face . |
| 12 | I think it 's a shame she then made the ‘ career move ’ to a chat show format because she 's much more interesting in her own right than anything she elicits from her guests . |
| 13 | ’ Excitedly she 's thrust a hand at me , her rapture transparent in her broad smile and shining eyes . |
| 14 | Adisa had tumours on her heart and urgently needed treatment unavailable in her native Bosnia . |
| 15 | Adisa had tumours on her heart and urgently needed treatment unavailable in her native Bosnia . |
| 16 | By some quirk in her moral fibre , Tamar found nothing incongruous in her tempestuous affair with the groom , caring for Stephen as deeply as she did . |
| 17 | She sat down awkwardly on one of the chairs , feeling highly incongruous in her black dress , which she had been obliged to put back on that morning , and looked down at her stiletto-clad feet . |
| 18 | She , Aurora Jennings Blake , who had always been quite content in her own company , who indeed had positively longed for solitude on occasions , was lonely . |
| 19 | She was content in her own city . |
| 20 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |
| 21 | She was desperate to move now , physical awareness returning suddenly to her body and making her realise that she was numb in her left leg and stiff everywhere else . |
| 22 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 23 | She could not bear to feel such a stranger , so alien , and somehow so insecure in her own personality , as if she found herself hard to recognise in these new surroundings . |
| 24 | Handsome , confident , knowing exactly what he wanted , and what she ought to want , it had been hard — no , virtually impossible in her depressed state — to hold out against him . |
| 25 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 26 | ‘ At St Oswald 's , ’ said his mum , who was sitting next to him , prim and nervous in her best hat and coat which was only proper for a visit to Woolton . |
| 27 | She paused , surprised by the wave of pain and nostalgia that passed through her at the mention of the name , leaving her weak and trembling ; as if the sights , sounds , smells , tastes , feelings , sufferings of years could be experienced again in a single spasm of sickening intensity : the cold cubicle , the rustle of habits and the squeaking of boots as the nuns filed into the chapel , the stink of stew in the refectory ; her first lesson , the children shaking their up-stretched hands , eager to please the new sister ; Hilda , dew-fresh in her white blouse and neatly-pressed gym-slip , shy and ardent in the back row ; Hilda and herself together in the copse , in the chapel , in the cloisters , praying , talking , joking , sharing secrets , confidences … |
| 28 | Jean Henderson , about whom her daughter was able to give me many details , was perhaps unusual in her great thirst for reading . |
| 29 | To the first readers of Middlemarch , however , an elaboration of her plans might have seemed redundant , for if her ambitions were unusual in her own time , they were routine responsibilities by the 1870s . |
| 30 | She was looking very pretty in her bathing suit , her hair still damp from swimming . |