Example sentences of "[to-vb] in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Delighted to find in her Venetian exile someone else who had spent the war in London , Julia sat down beside Mrs Suvarov . |
| 5 | Lan , for her part , hoped fervently that her innocence would be self-evident , and as she watched her prostrate grandfather 's lips moving soundlessly she began to phrase in her own mind the plea for leniency she intended to submit to the ancestral spirit . |
| 6 | The soul of a princess in her gypsy rags , Doomed to fret in her humble stall … |
| 7 | Practical PC recently received a heart-rending letter from a reader and while it was already too late to help in her particular case it is worth going over her story to prevent others from falling into the same trap . |
| 8 | She must have thought , at that moment , that each singer was a ‘ kitten ’ in distress , and she was no doubt trying to help in her own way . |
| 9 | My niece Louise when to play in her new party frock . |
| 10 | Nutty was trying to put in her new contact lenses , which she found very difficult . |
| 11 | The mother also sought leave to put in her own statement ; the local authority sought leave to put in a statement by D. 's foster mother . |
| 12 | What she chose to do in her spare time was absolutely no business of his . |
| 13 | Though this was perhaps not unique among artists of her generation , whose careers were interrupted by war service , very few chose to rechannel their talents in the service of new music as she was to do in her close association with Benjamin Britten as a founder artist of the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival . |
| 14 | Well , she decided emphatically , whatever Luke was , Rob was pleasant company , and surely what she chose to do in her own lunch-hour was entirely her own affair . |
| 15 | She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state . |
| 16 | She would have spat if she had the spit to spare in her dry carcass . |
| 17 | These days , if Kylie does get a minute to spare in her demanding schedule , she goes shopping . |
| 18 | But then William had had to build the castle because he had permitted the defeated Harold 's widow to remain in her own hall . |
| 19 | Sarah Stitt is possessed of the same huge eyes that she likes to paint in her huge-eyed portraits . |
| 20 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 21 | A group of twenty young girls showed how each is able to cope in her own way using apparatus to musical accompaniment — on this occasion they handled balls , hoops , ribbons and twisters and very well too ! ! |
| 22 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 23 | ‘ A chance for the clergy wife to share in her own right . ’ |
| 24 | The ambience Iona Abbey aims to provide in terms of welcome and acceptance is one she hopes to recreate in her own home : ‘ When people live together , they share life-stories over the washing-up , ’ says the woman poised to play hostess to up to eight guests , for a possible five days every week . |
| 25 | She recently bought six giant maple trees to replant in her back garden but the crane hired for the job was so heavy the road caved in . |
| 26 | She is so slowed down by the dope slamming fifty visions of hell at her a second that she finds it hard to fight , hard to believe in her own anger , hard to believe in what she 's doing . |
| 27 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 28 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 29 | In practice a married daughter did not claim her share unless she continued to live in her natal village after marriage . |
| 30 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |