Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump . |
| 32 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
| 33 | The all-enveloping darkness made her progress difficult but in her emotional state she staggered on . |
| 34 | In her new role she will acquire fiction and non-fiction for the Weidenfeld general list with editorial director Allegra Huston , reporting to publishing director Ion Trewin . |
| 35 | In her two volumes she refers to more than eighty specific types of trees , flowers , plants and vegetables . |
| 36 | As a four-year-old she won all her four races , including the Coronation Cup , the Champion Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup ; in her other race she started at 55–1 on to defeat a solitary opponent . |
| 37 | In her other essay she considers the theme of female deceptiveness in those scriptures , arguing that it is the text itself which is deceptive through its failing to name the real problem : namely that the power relations which pertained between men and women forced women to seek to obtain their ends through underhand means , while at the same time the deviousness of women is used to justify their inferior position . |
| 38 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 39 | But equally she is likely to take considerable exception to the arrival of any stranger and in her current mood you would probably end up with mincemeat ( mincefish ? ) . |
| 40 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 41 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 42 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 43 | In her incensed whisper she called me names I did n't understand . |
| 44 | She tracked Ana to her room , a room further along the balcony , and in her usual manner she came straight to the point . |
| 45 | For , to conceal the fact that in her utter astonishment she was looking ready to drop , Naylor moved his chair closer to her and drew her attention by planting a light and loving kiss on her cheek . |
| 46 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 47 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 48 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 49 | Furious , she glared at her half-empty wine glass , realising that in her abstracted mood she 'd drunk far more than she normally allowed herself to drink . |
| 50 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 51 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 52 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 53 | In her wildest dreams she had n't imagined that Rob 's wedding day would bring this ! |
| 54 | In her white nightdress she looked like a golden angel . |
| 55 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 56 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |
| 57 | But in her latest role it is her clothes , rather than lack of them , which take centre stage . |
| 58 | But even in her bemused state she heard , with fierce satisfaction , the harshness , the rapid breathing that belied his attempt to sound unmoved . |
| 59 | Practical PC recently received a heart-rending letter from a reader and while it was already too late to help in her particular case it is worth going over her story to prevent others from falling into the same trap . |
| 60 | And erm in her particular way she was quite a good cook too . |