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 | In foreign affairs she is only one national leader among many . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 7 | In spare moments she gave Rachaela boxes of jewellery or coins to sort , unvaluable items often to be highly priced . |
| 8 | In greasy Clouts she wraps her smoky Chin , |
| 9 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 10 | In other incidents she might simply have placed her hand over the child 's mouth or nose , or interfered with its oxygen supply with ‘ dramatic consequence ’ . |
| 11 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 12 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 13 | In other moods she would go to bed for days , and have trays sent up to her room that were laden with stingy nursery snacks of mashed fish and junket . |
| 14 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 15 | It is like having an auntie in a way , but in other ways she is a mum because whenever it 's anything special , she always sends up something ... but it 's as I said before , like an auntie . |
| 16 | But in other respects she had had her own way . |
| 17 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 18 | In other words she herself is opening up avenues for all sorts of intuitive meanings . |
| 19 | Sien , he stressed , was that kind of person : in other words she was a substitute for something else — as prostitutes are — and from an inferior class . |
| 20 | Isle of and they sh what she went on to say is erm I hope to redress this in the shortly in other words she 's shortly going to but I must say I like the expression long fingering you know bloody idle you know . |
| 21 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 22 | But then er in recent times she stay in the farm so |
| 23 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 24 | In recent years she 's suffered two heart attacks and been treated for cancer and she says she ca n't stand much more of the strain . |
| 25 | Throughout her life she was a regular worshipper at Llanfwrog Parish Church , even though in recent years she was largely confined to her home . |
| 26 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 27 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 28 | In alternate months she wrote nature articles and literary pieces . |
| 29 | Rather than organizing mass midnight meetings to confront the evil in working-class areas she judged it more effective for women to go into the ‘ dens of infamy ’ in the morning as friends and advisers . |