Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] 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 | Meanwhile sister-in-law Kim had been working hard too and in 12 months she lost 5st ( 32kg ) , plus 12½ins ( 32cm ) from her bust , 11 ins ( 28 cm ) from her waist , 14ins ( 36cm ) from her hips and 10½ins ( 26cm ) from each thigh ! |
| 4 | In foreign affairs she is only one national leader among many . |
| 5 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 6 | In different ways she loved them all ; even her weak-natured husband , who showered all of them with affection , and who was filled with excitement that , at long last , he was about to become a father in his own right . |
| 7 | In some cases she suggested that there had been coalescence of settlements , with the abandonment of the earlier pattern of hamlets and combining of lands and holdings . |
| 8 | ‘ In some cases she plainly injected insulin . |
| 9 | In some respects she resisted that influence and in others succumbed to it . |
| 10 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 11 | In some ways she had enjoyed her position . |
| 12 | In some ways she was happy that she had no conscious memory of the details , but unless she was able to recall them she knew that there would be no case for the young man to answer and he would go free . |
| 13 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , you are , ’ said my mother , and briefly she smiled too because in some ways she was no fool . |
| 15 | She often found herself making excuses to avoid him though in some ways she was interested in him , even attracted to him . |
| 16 | Twenty , she had said , and in some ways she seemed younger . |
| 17 | It is said in some quarters she is being vindictive about these matters . |
| 18 | In some poems she praises the beauty and accomplishments of other women , though in a manner which foregrounds heterosexual courtship . |
| 19 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 20 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 21 | Obviously in such circumstances she is reluctant to leave . |
| 22 | In these moods she could have eaten anything . |
| 23 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 24 | In these pages she produces an almost rounded figure of her famous husband Norman , who abandoned a successful law practice to lead the masses . |
| 25 | He wiped his hand from brow to chin in the hope of sloughing the illusion off , and in these seconds she opened the door to make her escape . |
| 26 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 27 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 28 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 29 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
| 30 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |