Example sentences of "and in [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 2 | And in each hand she had two heavy plastic carrier bags of shopping ; they cut into her hands and threatened to split . |
| 3 | Meanwhile in Egypt Isis had heard what Seth had done to her husband and in great distress she set out to find him . |
| 4 | He looked fiercely alarming and in actual fact she had n't the faintest idea how to begin this task . |
| 5 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 6 | She is modestly draped but wears jewellery , and in one vignette she applies perfume to her hair with a pin dipped in a flask . |
| 7 | And in that instant she guessed the stars that ruled him . |
| 8 | And in that instant she understood two things . |
| 9 | There was still a world to face and in that world she had learned to take care of herself . |
| 10 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 11 | Mrs Knelle gave a shudder , and in that moment she reminded me of a Karen Blixen figure in Kenya , who has stayed on after Mau Mau to make the best of life in a new Republic . |
| 12 | Nothing happened for a moment , and in that moment she started to think that she 'd over-reached herself ; but then Charlie said , ‘ This is n't some charity for runaways , you know , ’ and she knew that she was still within the limits , if only just . |
| 13 | As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to . |
| 14 | And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away . |
| 15 | Then Rachel remembered that Jennifer had said that David had told her he was in love with her and in that moment she knew that what her sister had said had been the truth , because it was there in his eyes . |
| 16 | ‘ With your arms around my neck I ca n't think of anything but — ’ He broke off as a door opened along the corridor , his head turning automatically to look away , and in that moment she escaped , going into her room and slamming the door behind her . |
| 17 | The trousers had followed the jacket on to the chair , leaving only a pair of grey and white striped boxer shorts , and in dumb amazement she clutched the towel around her and stared reluctantly at the most impressive male body she 'd ever seen , well over six feet of muscle and sinew and matt-looking olive-tanned skin . |
| 18 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |
| 19 | A serving-man , sent to the kitchens , reported that they were already busy , having had their instructions , and in due course she and the women attending her ate where they were , in the chamber . |
| 20 | In April , while on a protracted stay with Janet 's parents in Walsall , she complains of his extremely hard work , and in early May she first states that he is working for Oxford entrance . |
| 21 | He was unfastening the waist of his trousers now , having kicked shoes and socks under a chair , and in helpless fury she bent down to snatch the damp towel from the floor , wrenching it round herself and jumping down from the bed , glaring at him so ferociously that he suddenly burst out laughing . |
| 22 | Meanwhile sister-in-law Kim had been working hard too and in 12 months she lost 5st ( 32kg ) , plus 12½ins ( 32cm ) from her bust , 11 ins ( 28 cm ) from her waist , 14ins ( 36cm ) from her hips and 10½ins ( 26cm ) from each thigh ! |
| 23 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 24 | As she caught her breath , her temper erupted , and in wild self-defence she pushed against the steel wall of his chest , twisted frantically in his arms , her grey eyes sparking fire as she lifted her hand to hit out at him blindly . |
| 25 | She closed her eyes and in three minutes she was asleep . |
| 26 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 27 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 28 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 29 | Twenty , she had said , and in some ways she seemed younger . |
| 30 | She did what she thought was right and in this country she said a price . |