Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Note how Caroline 's long line in her final version enacts her meaning : going down and down , ‘ no end … |
| 2 | He acknowledged in his affidavit now filed in support of the application and repeated in his oral evidence taken on Friday , that ‘ Miss T. 's conscious level was somewhat clouded although she was fully orientated and appropriate in her verbal responses did not make any inappropriate comments and showed no signs of hallucination . |
| 3 | The situation was complicated by Minton 's affection for and affinity with Henrietta who has been compared with a Suffragette in her absolute determination to defeat the pressures of convention . |
| 4 | She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies . |
| 5 | Anna works on a farm and in her spare time paints her nails ! |
| 6 | In Sunderland a single parent in her late teens told me . |
| 7 | She made a cup of tea , and sat down at the table in her tiny kitchen to drink it . |
| 8 | The pain in her lower back subsided leaving a dull ache . |
| 9 | In her challenging book Look Me in the Eye , she finds herself rejected by her feminist campaigner friends , with all kinds of excuses about her assumed deteriorating abilities . |
| 10 | Her heart sank at the sight of fresh blood on the bandage , but she set about unwinding the strip of linen , praying that she had not opened up fitzAlan 's wound too badly in her frantic efforts to escape . |
| 11 | A widow in her eighties , disabled and wheelchair-bound by arthritis , caused in the main by many hunting accidents , she held an annual Harvest Home in her private chapel followed by feasting and dancing in the ballroom to which she invited estate workers and local luminaries . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose you know the Trunchbull has a lock-up cupboard in her private quarters called The Chokey ? |
| 13 | One was Esther herself , who had never been accepted into what was essentially a man 's world , and who , in her desperate efforts to prove them all wrong , had made one too many a mistake . |
| 14 | What was there in her murky past to raise this barrier between them ? |
| 15 | But , though there is no engagement ring yet on Jill 's finger , that look in her sparkling eyes gives us all the best possible hope . |
| 16 | The most spectacular rise in her international status occurred in the reign of Peter the Great ( 1682–1725 ) . |
| 17 | Antoinette in her stiff-winged armchair sighed over the petticoat she was hemming . |
| 18 | Virginia Woolf in her Collected Essays writes that women 's humour tends to make serious what appears insignificant to men , and trivialise what is important to them . |
| 19 | Diana , whose frustration in her failed marriage has been revealed in TODAY , refused to give her husband a hint of the warmth she once showed . |
| 20 | All big changes in her young life had been suddenly thrust upon her . |
| 21 | The 21-year-old Ulster girl is making her international debut in this tournament and in her first singles match she came up English star Joanne Morley , losing 3 and 2 in a game which saw eight birdies , five from Morley and three from McCool . |
| 22 | She did this to Marianne Prommeger , a tall Austrian , in her first fight to earn a decision . |
| 23 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |
| 24 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 25 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 26 | Her cheeks began to fill out and the hollows by her collar bone were less noticeable , but the dullness in her blue eyes persisted . |
| 27 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 28 | The position of a Hindu woman in her marital family becomes vastly more secure when she becomes a mother , especially of male children . |
| 29 | Noreen bowed her head blushing in shame and was about to walk off when the song was taken up by a voice in the wings and out stepped Maria in her best dress to finish the song , ‘ To reflect back her blushes or give sigh for sigh ’ . |
| 30 | By his order dated 14 July 1992 the judge granted a declaration that it was not unlawful for the first or third defendants to administer a blood transfusion to T. if they considered that it was in her best interests to do so . |