Example sentences of "[vb pp] in her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the following afternoon , as soon as Mrs Wormwood had departed in her car for another session of bingo , Matilda set out for Fred 's house to investigate . |
| 2 | MOTHER-of-two Wendy Pearce was trapped in her home for two days by a ram in her garden . |
| 3 | She felt that her heart would burst with the ache of love , and searched in her mind for words that would bind him to her and bring him back . |
| 4 | She walked up the path , her sensible shoes making a crunching sound on the gravel , and searched in her handbag for the key to the front door . |
| 5 | A girl , aged two , who was locked in her home for nearly 24 hours with the bodies of her dead parents was being looked after by relatives yesterday . |
| 6 | Over to Mary 's quarters he went , while Alice remained locked in her apartment for fear of the plague of adders which her husband assured her infested the grounds . |
| 7 | He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover 's eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to love . |
| 8 | Professor Richard Owen 's ( the eminent anatomist ) wife noted in her diary for 27 March 1841 : ‘ Lord Northampton 's evening party . |
| 9 | With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes ; |
| 10 | How ironic that someone who had held her spellbound as a child and had lingered in her imagination for years should have turned out to be so arrogantly cold and superior . |
| 11 | She ordered a snowball , and fumbled in her bag for the price of it . |
| 12 | He kissed her wet lips , warmly , tenderly , bringing them back to life , and she was lost in her love for him and his for her and she really did n't care if they never talked again . |