Example sentences of "[noun sg] in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she paused in her work and turned to look at him , he saw the disappointment in her dark eyes . |
| 2 | FIERY actress Tatum O'Neal is to star as a killer in her first TV series since splitting with tennis ace John McEnroe . |
| 3 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 4 | There was a light in her dark eyes that Julia could not remember seeing before her illness and yet there was sadness too . |
| 5 | By contrast , the eyes showed light in her thin face . |
| 6 | Cocoa butter is now an important ingredient in her skin-care products , for example . |
| 7 | She lay in her carefully , fustily feminine bedroom in her little house in Woodborough , and tormented Isobel . |
| 8 | Skilfully he tuned every nerve in her narrow body to such a concert pitch of response that she began to initiate caresses of her own , delighting in her power as rippling muscles tightened beneath her questing hands . |
| 9 | The eyes of a killer … and the eyes , masked by heavy Health Service spectacles , of a spinster in her 81st year . |
| 10 | Mrs. Norton not only won the Parliamentary competition in 1913 at Walton Heath ; she became , in 1937 , President of the Henley Golf Club in her own right , the first and only Lady President to date . |
| 11 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |
| 12 | With a sideways look , a twinkle in her dark eyes , she confessed , ‘ I have no idea . |
| 13 | Mrs Whitehouse viewed these programmes as having no redeeming qualities whatsoever , and it was not long before she herself became the subject of a satirical programme in her own right . |
| 14 | There was also tragedy in her private life . |
| 15 | What was she so tense about ? she wondered , trying to delve into the confusion in her own mind . |
| 16 | The next few hours were spent in a daze while Lucy tried to disentangle the confusion in her bewildered mind . |
| 17 | It was only now that she was happy with the girls in Littlewood 's Pools that Joe realised how much she had been hurt by the cattiness in her previous job . |
| 18 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 19 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 20 | Robyn stretched her arms high above her head , releasing some of the tension in her aching shoulders from being hunched over her drawing-board for so long . |
| 21 | Susan clasped her hands because she was trembling , but the tension in her locked fingers only made her shake the more . |
| 22 | What I am saying ? she thought wildly , aware of the thumping beat of her heart , the tension in her whole body as she gripped the phone and waited for his curt reply . |
| 23 | But now he realised the woman was in control as she held his risen monster in her exquisite mouth , and in spite of the urgent movement of his thighs she devoured him as she pleased : sometimes allowing him into the back of her deep throat ; sometimes sipping at the helmet of his quivering phallus . |
| 24 | She scoured the streets in the poorer areas looking for likely candidates and then , knowing the reality of poverty , taught them the rules of hygiene in her own way , which the Girls would imitate and laugh at behind her back . |
| 25 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 26 | Unfortunately it was making Charity feel like a stranger in her own skin . |
| 27 | She could see no future in her clandestine relationship . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you never sleep ? ’ he said to Nubenehem , who was rooted to her couch in her half-reclining posture . |
| 29 | His concern for Rebecca was something tangible , and it left a heavy dragging weight in her own heart . |
| 30 | But if I know her she is composing something more like an entry in a good encyclopaedia , or perhaps a chapter in her own book . |