Example sentences of "in her [noun] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly reality was distorted and in her dream she was pulled to the ground and the two of them began digging at her chest with the rakes . |
| 2 | In her haste she was clumsy and only succeeded in pushing the loaf of Dinkum bread and the sandwich off the table and on to the floor , already sticky from the sugar . |
| 3 | In her dreams she was twelve years old again ; short , scratched legs in red socks and scuffed , brown sandals , walking along the narrow , dirt path at the side of the railway line to where it plunged down , off the high ridge , through the Druid 's Grove . |
| 4 | Compliments were useful tools of the friendship trade , I told myself , but in her case it was true . |
| 5 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 6 | In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market . |
| 7 | Or cats in her in her case it was cats , yes . |
| 8 | But in her case I was able to leave her in here much longer . |
| 9 | In her paintings it was otherwise . |
| 10 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 11 | For the first time in her life she was doing something for herself ; doing it without help from anyone , and what was more , she was getting it right . |
| 12 | For the first time in her life she was conscious of being independent and in charge . |
| 13 | As the head snuggled into her and the thin arm came round her waist , Aggie drew in a long tight breath ; then when her own arm automatically went around the child , she closed her eyes tightly , because for the first time in her life she was feeling flesh close to her own . |
| 14 | Because of the enormous disruptions she had suffered in her life she was finding it difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis , and prison represented a way of ‘ escaping ’ from her immediate problems . |
| 15 | For the first time in her life she was n't being rational , and the realisation both excited and horrified her . |
| 16 | For once in her life she was grateful for the surge of anger welling up inside her , glad to use it as a defence , even though in her heart she knew it was directed not at Dane but at herself . |
| 17 | For once in her life she was speechless . |
| 18 | In her memory it was always raining and always cold . |
| 19 | In her memory it was too bleak , too desolate , and that had given it an added power . |
| 20 | And in her hand she was still holding the red geranium . |
| 21 | My mother said she did n't know what things were coming to when you had to make girls get married because in her youth it was always the boys who did n't want to . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She 's very strict , ’ Vimla once told me , ‘ But they say that in her youth she was the best dancer in North India . ’ |
| 23 | Once in her seat she was able to look round , and she quietly absorbed the lovely surroundings . |
| 24 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 25 | In her lifetime she was never known to cry , never known to complain . |
| 26 | In her mind she was already formulating a plan of action … |
| 27 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 28 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 29 | In her desperation she was relentless . |
| 30 | In her job she was accustomed to boosting fragile egos and bolstering shaky morales , but it went against the grain to tell outright lies . |