Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Carson 's father has a prosperous cotton business in Manchester , ’ Mrs Carson said one day in her friendly manner . |
| 2 | And another : ‘ it was not easy to make out Little Dorrit 's face , she was so retiring , a delicately bent head , a tiny form , a quick little pair of busy hands , what affection in her words , what compassion in her repressed tears , what a great soul of fidelity within her , how true the light that shed false brightness round her ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Imagine me , the wicked Baroness ! ’ says Susan Cecilia Wilberforce Dale de Stempel incredulously , sitting up very straight in her hard-backed prison chair . |
| 4 | High colour leapt to her cheeks as anger danced in her tawny eyes . |
| 5 | The agony of years was held in those short staccato sentences , and tears glimmered in her tawny eyes with the pain of confession . |
| 6 | Hurt showed clearly in her tawny eyes as she gazed back at him . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , Adam , ’ she re-entered the kitchen with her chin tilted defiantly upward and a challenging glint in her tawny eyes , ‘ what 's so important that it could n't wait till a more reasonable time of day ? ’ |
| 8 | When moving dancers from two feet to one in both open and closed sissonnes , the choreographer can make the movements dart over the floor as Aurora does in her final solo in The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 9 | It is essential that Mrs G Lomas be kept informed of our deliberations , so that she can incorporate any revision of the Science Plan in her final document . |
| 10 | Not only was she sports captain she was also elected head girl in her final year at school , voted there by the pupils and the staff . |
| 11 | She prospered at GSA nevertheless , coming out with the second highest marks in her final year , which should have given her a valuable travelling scholarship . |
| 12 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 13 | The Angela Carter I knew and admired in her final years is a real presence in this book . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Note how Caroline 's long line in her final version enacts her meaning : going down and down , ‘ no end … |
| 16 | This is the fear that haunts President Aquino in her final days in Malacanang Palace before presidential elections on May 11 . |
| 17 | SO TRAGIC : In her final days |
| 18 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |
| 19 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 20 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 21 | In this exhibition she explores the relationships between music and the visual arts by translating four moments representing the four seasons from the score of Purcell 's The Fairy Queen in her distinctive use of line and colour ( until 15 March ) . |
| 22 | In this exhibition she explores the relationship between music and the visual arts by translating four moments representing the four seasons from the score of Purcell 's The Fairy Queen in her distinctive use of line and colour ( until 15 March ) . |
| 23 | In her thirty-two years of office , she never accepted a salary . |
| 24 | Ai n't got a blonde hair in her bloody head , no it 's all grey |
| 25 | The outcome of the Formosan expedition demonstrated the weakness of China in her external dealings , a lesson that was not lost on Japan . |
| 26 | Rome , it has been said , suffered from a ‘ neurosis of fear ’ in her external relations . |
| 27 | This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth . |
| 28 | She felt unclean and unworthy , rather as she hoped that her mother , in her dark moments , must feel about Mr Stacey — and she never told Nora of the incident . |
| 29 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 30 | She was shivering in her dark fur coat . |