Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 2 | The book 's old-fashioned typeface , cramped and black , was as distinctive as Victorine herself in her dark dress and blue check overall , rapt lady clown with a glistening face and deft wrists . |
| 3 | He looked at her speculatively , wondering at the expression in her dark eyes and then said very slowly and carefully , " Well … it is true , we do need bodies to practise on … " |
| 4 | Deterioration in her mental status and renal function occurred , and on 31 May she died , three months after the onset of her illness . |
| 5 | Cruzan 's parents contended that their daughter would not wish to be kept alive in her present state and argued for the right to end her life . |
| 6 | Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress and Melanie put on a dress she had never worn in her uncle 's house , a best dress from the old days , dark green corduroy with lace at the neck . |
| 7 | Standing in the Platz in her elegant coat and furs Erika was on the verge of tears : first the books were thrown on to the flames and then , in a terrible and inevitable sequence , human beings were put into the incinerators . |
| 8 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 9 | Those days seemed such a very long time ago , and seeing Alice now , so chic , so elegant , it was almost impossible to remember her in her grey-and-white-striped uniform and white cap , calling Madeleine ‘ Miss ’ and Aubrey ‘ Master ’ ! |
| 10 | My mother , in her mustard-coloured coat and skirt , with a green jumper for her nice colourful contrast , looked minutely offended but was n't sufficiently interested in clothes to argue the matter further . |
| 11 | In her doctoral dissertation and later in A Grammar of Metaphor , Brooke-Rose studies the mechanics of metaphoric interaction from a grammatical point of view . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The big stocky figure of Benny Hogan in her strong shoes and tightly buttoned sensible coat , the waif-like Eve in the clothes that were always too long and streelish on her . |
| 14 | She was led away into a crisp-looking cell where she was measured and weighed ; a careful , polite pair of hands found a vein in her strong arm and removed a vial of her blood . |
| 15 | Mrs Fitzgerald said in her gentle voice and Anne smiled and agreed . |
| 16 | Madeleine was so wide-eyed and chic in her full-skirted coat and little hat . |
| 17 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 18 | There was also the undoubted increase in her personal self-confidence and stature as a result of the recapture of the Falklands and then the 1983 and 1987 election victories . |
| 19 | Somehow , in her mixed anxiety and embarrassment , this was coming out all wrong . |
| 20 | Learning to fly in the 1930s , Nancy flew all over Australia in her Gipsy Moth and Leopard Moth and this book chronicles some of her escapades . |
| 21 | She was taking a risk , for Constance sometimes rejoiced in her gipsy blood and sometimes deplored it . |
| 22 | Mother Benedicta , immaculate in her black habit and white , starched coif , listened to her flock , her eyes twinkling . |
| 23 | she said she wanted her jeans ironed and I er pressed them and then when I she came downstairs in her black trousers and |
| 24 | Fifteen minutes later Belinda fell equally neatly into bed in her lilac cotton and lace nightgown . |
| 25 | Katy Reynolds won the silver in the 1981 girls ' breaststroke in her first championships and Margaretha Pedder took silver in the 1980 girls ' freestyle . |
| 26 | The shoemaker dances with her in her first excitement and then collapses and turns into a tangle of dead leaves as she tires . |
| 27 | ’ Excitedly she 's thrust a hand at me , her rapture transparent in her broad smile and shining eyes . |
| 28 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 29 | When the interview ended , and Jean-Claude Meursault had risen , shaken her hand gravely , and then quickly joined the group around the camera at the end of the track to Miranda 's right , she began sketching in her small pad and taking the occasional photograph when the noise levels permitted . |
| 30 | Emily did n't know why she was being so defensive with this girl from the lower order in her simple garments and with her wild hair . |