Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe felt sure that in normal circumstances she was a cheerful woman , more ready to laugh than cry . |
| 2 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 3 | In civvy street she would have found it hard to find a fellow to chat with and so she likely considered the war a godsend . |
| 4 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 5 | In each case she argues that female creativity has been constructed by men as a contradiction in terms . |
| 6 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 7 | Somebody in each street she picked out ? |
| 8 | And in each hand she had two heavy plastic carrier bags of shopping ; they cut into her hands and threatened to split . |
| 9 | In that mood she said she had been present at a lot of attacks that had occurred on Ward 4 . |
| 10 | In that instant she realised the whole shocking weirdness of what was going on . |
| 11 | Because in that instant she had fired the ship 's rear guns and had blasted the other ship 's nose section into particles . |
| 12 | And in that instant she guessed the stars that ruled him . |
| 13 | And something stilled within her as in that instant she caught a tantalising waft of the rich , dark scent of him and felt the hard , powerful warmth of him press against her . |
| 14 | And in that instant she understood two things . |
| 15 | In that instant she knew that standing before her was the most exciting man she had ever met . |
| 16 | In that instant she could happily have hit him . |
| 17 | But in that sense she can use the car on her own . |
| 18 | Reed Children 's Books and Books for Students , the Warwick-based school and library supplier , have just announced that in that capacity she will be a judge for a new competition for primary school children — the first prize being a week 's holiday for a whole class at children 's author Michael Morpurgo 's farm in Devon . |
| 19 | In that look she saw her life with him and it was a decent life : the small farm in high northern fell-land , the farm coming in part or in whole to him , several children , heavy days , quiet times , a life she often yearned for — a plain and ordinary life away from this coddled valley , a place in which she could start again . |
| 20 | He held his hand out in a gesture for her to come into the house but in that second she knew she never could . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps in that way she had a lucky escape . ’ |
| 22 | Seeing Curtis at the door in that way she did not need him to repeat his announcement . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've done it again , ’ she said , twisting her lips in that way she had of showing disappointment with herself . |
| 24 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen one other case — where a woman fell on her face — but in that case she had other facial injuries which Lewis did n't have . |
| 26 | " In that case she would n't be all the way over here , would she ? " |
| 27 | Well given that then , in that case she still ca n't ring the bank to find out what , how much she 's now got in the account . |
| 28 | ‘ In that period she could have changed . |
| 29 | Mrs Knelle gave a shudder , and in that moment she reminded me of a Karen Blixen figure in Kenya , who has stayed on after Mau Mau to make the best of life in a new Republic . |
| 30 | In that moment she made up her mind . |