Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.

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1 You know , everything I 've got in my bottom drawer she does anyway .
2 In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view .
3 Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home .
4 Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia .
5 In her unsentimental way she loved children , though no one was better aware of their knavish tricks .
6 In her absolute despair she cried out , the cry came through her whole shaking body into her voice .
7 In her spare time she managed to complete her Master of Education degree , writing a thesis on African education .
8 In her spare time she makes and decorates cakes of different shapes and sizes for all occasions .
9 In her spare time she writes .
10 In her spare time she does some translation from French .
11 In her spare time she also plays the piano and harp and goes horse-riding .
12 But in her late teens she lost interest .
13 Few men living in Leicester were not , Theda reflected , for in her former life she had learned early that this was the best hunting country in England .
14 For the first time in her married life she saw pain in her husband 's eyes , as though she had plunged a knife into his body .
15 It was what was in her immediate life she was fed up with — anything distant or in the past could bring out her interest .
16 In her frantic anxiety she began rubbing her eyes and then her dripping nose as if trying to flatten both into her skull .
17 When she was in her stockinged feet she moved to get out , but Marc was wedged in the doorway , unbuckling his boots .
18 Now when she saw him drinking , wild-eyed and aggressive , in her inner eye she kept the vision of the distinguished and striking man she knew him to be .
19 She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance .
20 In her first school she had been considered outstanding at maths , and had obtained six grade As in her nine O levels .
21 ( 74 ) In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden …
22 In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently .
23 Although quiet and demure in her first term she was no goody goody .
24 And for once in her misbegotten life she was right .
25 Tea was very bad for children , Nicandra knew , but in her exhilarated state she accepted it happily , and hoped for a slice of soda-bread to go with it .
26 In her great excitement she thrust herself forward and grabbed the older man by the hand , which she shook up and down , crying , ‘ God bless you , sir .
27 In her incisive essay she nips a few Icons of Feminist Art Theory in the ankle .
28 In her right hand she weighed something which made a strange metallic click-click sound .
29 On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath .
30 Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump .
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