Example sentences of "in this [noun sg] she [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | In this state she had a vision of Jesus , about whom she knew nothing . |
2 | ‘ She was partly dismantled with flat tyres and covered in dust and junk , but she fascinated me and even in this state she looked elegant ’ . |
3 | And in this state she gallops night by night |
4 | In this case she went back to her third birthday . |
5 | She had not spoken so elaborately for some time , and Betty knew the warning signs ; so , whereas with anyone else she would have appealed to their better nature , in this case she held her tongue . |
6 | ‘ In this case she guessed correctly . ’ |
7 | Evidently in this case she has benefited , although that is left unstated . |
8 | In this dream she had been locked into the school library with an exam paper containing one question and one only : Compare and contrast narrative method in Proust and Tom Jones . |
9 | The last time she played in this competition she suffered a disastrous defeat and is keen to make amends . |
10 | As the wife of the civic leader , Mrs Murphy had to do considerable entertaining in generous western style , but in this field she made no attempt to keep pace with Olga Stych or Donna Frizzell ; she knew when she was beaten . |
11 | Her first detective novel , The Man in the Queue , a highly accomplished piece of a work for a novice hand , was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot — the name by which she preferred to be known , in both public and private — though for her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey . |
12 | But even in this tumult she felt that Mark was the sane , controlled life-guard , trying to calm her . |
13 | In this landscape she seems , despite the onlookers , completely lost . |
14 | For the first time since she 'd appeared she said his name , tentatively , as though in this darkness she 'd suddenly doubted he was real . |
15 | She did what she thought was right and in this country she said a price . |
16 | And in her final words to Wilekin in this exchange she manages to give an ambiguous hint that she may be prepared to entertain Wilekin — along with her husband : ( " You could go home , dear brother . |
17 | In this way she developed her instinctive talent as a fashion editor ; she could instantly take a detail from this and an idea from that , while keeping well within her overall style . |
18 | In this way she guides the attacker 's punch right past her with a successful deflection . |
19 | In this way she lived to be a hundred years old , more or less . |
20 | In this way she seems to be a very stubborn character . |
21 | In this way she indicates the intellectual vitality and the social significance of medicine in the period . |
22 | In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two . |
23 | He was just in this photograph she had on her dresser . ’ |
24 | Diane and her husband Geoff have now completed the trip and in this article she recounts their hazardous journey . |
25 | In this stillness she recalled how once she had so much loved sleep , half sleep , lying with Jack beside her , relaxing into sleep . |
26 | Her marriage was in ruins but here in this place she found peace . |
27 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
28 | In this place she called us to , Caer Wydyr , a great evil is growing . ’ |
29 | She looked very young , as if she was wearing her first evening dress ; and in this photo she looked less heavy-featured ; rather piquant , a touch of mischief , almost a shy delectation in being queen of a cabinet of curiosa . |
30 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |