Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She accepted the therapist 's simple interpretation that this probably in part explained her excessive need for attention and reassurance from Charles . |
| 2 | A second , ‘ more menacing ’ image rendered in black symbolised her carnal instincts in the guise of another woman . |
| 3 | Educated at home , she in turn taught her younger brothers and sisters , which irked her as it prevented her from pursuing her own studies . |
| 4 | These natural physical advantages were but the basis upon which to build her technique , and on that in turn to develop her exceptional artistry . |
| 5 | They concern data which were not published in the original paper , but which Dr Imanishi-Kari gave to an NIH panel in order to support her published claims against Dr O'Toole 's criticisms . |
| 6 | The plot ( to an excellent book by one of Handel 's favourite librettists , Nicola Haym ) has two clearly delineated strands — Cleopatra 's seduction of Caesar , initially in order to further her own political ends against her treacherous brother and coruler of Egypt , Ptolemy , and the pursuit of revenge by the widow and son of Pompey , brutally murdered by Ptolemy before the curtain rises . |
| 7 | The liberal in question is journalist Ruth , a South African who has ended seven years of English exile ostensibly in order to visit her elderly father . |
| 8 | Her elder daughter came in with roses in her cheeks where she had pinched herself , in order to give her swarthy complexion colour , as her mother had once shown her . |
| 9 | Again Beth hesitated , thinking it wrong that she should use this lovely girl in order to lessen her own burden . |
| 10 | Moreover , Germany was obliged to hurry from the west troops that could ill be spared , in order to succour her enfeebled and demoralized ally . |
| 11 | At that instant , I would have fought a wild beast in order to preserve her unharmed . |
| 12 | This consists of including a statement of those things with which the nurse is to be provided in order to demonstrate her final level of performance . |
| 13 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 14 | Just as she uses passive resistance in order to overcome her own passivity , so she uses her empty stomach to overcome her own emptiness . |
| 15 | For Pierantozzi , a fearsome if handsome woman , has come to Crystal Palace this weekend in order to challenge her youthful rival once more . |
| 16 | , Arthur Llewelyn Jones- ( 1863–1947 ) , author and essayist , was born 3 March 1863 in Caerleon-on-Usk , Monmouthshire , the only child of the Revd John Edward Jones , rector of Llanddewi Fach , and his wife Janet Robina Machen , whose maiden name was adopted by the family in order to please her Scottish relations . |
| 17 | Every day she fought back the waves of nausea in order to fulfil her public engagements . |
| 18 | Louise realised that Nora wanted a fight in order to clear her growing frustration — and she was determined not to give her the opportunity . |
| 19 | But in Using a Model for Nursing ( Roper et al , 1983 ) , the third year student nurse contributing to the study in a surgical ward , commented that the model approach helped her to appreciate the need for planned discharge goals ; even when admitting the patient , she was alerted to consider what the patient required to know on discharge in order to resume her usual Activities of Living . |
| 20 | For once she had no need to count up and then across in order to identify her own balcony . |
| 21 | Although she will in fact serve her last few shifts at the new community hospital at Treloar 's , it was her wish to hold her retirement party at Alton General Hospital before it closed . |
| 22 | And the grandmother 's homily in all its macabre detail , leading up to ‘ so if the dead could shave there 's no excuse for the living ’ releases a humorous response because it seems just what a respectable parent would say , in desperation to whip her errant son back to the straight ‘ n ’ narrow . |
| 23 | Tumbling blearily on deck in my pyjamas I was confronted by the huge bulk of a klondyke trawler ramming alongside us , and I was just in time to see her huge fender catch our motor dory and sink her where she was tied to our stern . |
| 24 | Stepping into the passage she trod on something soft , silky and alive , but was in time to withdraw her naked foot before it wailed . |