Example sentences of "[vb pp] in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Indeed he is not , ’ Feargal 's mother protested in her gentle way . |
| 3 | For the moment , Mrs Davis appears to be trapped in her decaying home , surrounded by builders . |
| 4 | Trapped in her own loneliness , suicide had begun to dominate her thoughts . |
| 5 | Her results and theories were summarized in her two-volume work , Floral Morphology ( 1937–9 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So St Margaret had sat in her empty court feeling neglected for decades . |
| 8 | Details of these items will be included in her official claim to be lodged with the United Nations . |
| 9 | She tried to call out , but her voice was gone , frozen in her paralysed throat . |
| 10 | Climbing to the top of a precipice in the company of a psychopath was not something she would have considered in her normal state of mind , she felt sure . |
| 11 | Leonora quivered , her teeth caught in her lower lip as he kissed each breast in turn , his lips lingering over their slight curves . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe she 's waiting to ring later , ’ Shirley said feebly , as a tide of rage with Liz , far away in distant London , washed through her : too absorbed in her own life , too selfish even to spend five minutes talking to her own mother . |
| 13 | She showed every sign of being absorbed in her difficult life with her husband and would probably be … |
| 14 | Her partners agreed to this unorthodox therapy on condition that it was done in her spare time and she produced an audit after a year . |
| 15 | All studies were done in her own time mostly working at home on correspondence courses or attending the Central College of Commerce in Glasgow . |
| 16 | She reportedly was injured in her quarterfinal match at the French Open and received pain-killing injections before her semi-final and final matches . |
| 17 | For it can not be emphasized too much that the transsexual , even after conversion surgery , continually seeks reassurance that she is now accepted in her new sex role . |
| 18 | Subtle changes take place , too , in the attitudes of some of her friends to whose circle she belonged when her husband was alive , which may lead her to feel rejected at a time when she needs to be accepted in her new role and to have her self-esteem strengthened . |
| 19 | That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear . |
| 20 | Doctors found the baby had grown in her Fallopian tube . |
| 21 | She had seen in her young days the island women carry brass bottomless bowls on their heads to support the old churns in which they delivered milk . |
| 22 | Seen in her latest movie ‘ Indecent Proposal ’ she can be seen wearing a tee-shirt with the sole word LINFIELD in large letters emblazed across it ! |
| 23 | Mr Justice Morland said that whatever the outcome of this case , the progress she 's made in her legal career represents a remarkable achievement . |
| 24 | The bed creaked , and she lay even stiller , listening intently , conjuring up the pictures the sounds made in her own mind . |
| 25 | ‘ A queer old wooden pier , ’ quoted Gwendolen blithely , determined to be noticed in her new sailor hat . |
| 26 | ‘ I take mostly professional people , ’ she 'd said in her strong voice with its pronounced German accent . |
| 27 | ‘ I love it , ’ she had said in her husky drawl , her eyes glowing . |
| 28 | Elaine was sitting hunched in a corner , rocking back and forth , her head buried in her crossed arms . |
| 29 | Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying . |
| 30 | She was buried in her favourite shoes — the ones with the cherries . |