Example sentences of "in her [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first type — active familial disruption — involved a woman in her thirties who was considered to be suffering from schizophrenia . |
| 2 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 3 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |
| 4 | Maybe she had tried , but in her sixties she had slumped into forgetfulness . |
| 5 | They sent me a girl in her mid-twenties who was petite and reasonably attractive . |
| 6 | The departure from her old home and her arrival in her new one will be a tremendous double adjustment for her to make , so you should try to give it a sense of occasion . |
| 7 | Pocket Book 's big summer read is from a promotable young actress , Lucinda Edmonds , with Lovers and Players ; Marsha Hunt does n't quite give us another Joy in her new one , Free ( Penguin ) , but her fans wo n't know that until they 've bought it . |
| 8 | but erm like Vicky who 's got , in her English folder , this is Vicky Vicky , she 's got in her literature she 's got nine A's and one B and in her other I do n't know what she 's got , ten A's probably , mm she 's not going to , she wants to be a nurse |
| 9 | This was a woman in her twenties who was considered to be schizophrenic . |
| 10 | A Sunderland woman in her twenties who had a lover for several years who spent some but not all of his time in her home , said , " We decided to start claiming together because there were a lot of snoopers around , and people I knew had got done . |
| 11 | a mature , capable woman in her twenties who has a strong sense of her own individuality … . |
| 12 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |
| 13 | They lost a patient , a young woman in her twenties who had thrown herself out of a car at speed to get away from her husband . |
| 14 | In her twenties she acted with her husband Jacob Kalich 's Yiddish rep company in Boston , before touring Europe . |
| 15 | Care proceedings over the 13-year-old were started after social workers became concerned about her relationship with a woman in her 20s who had three men friends , including a convicted sex offender . |
| 16 | Adrienne Saunders ( Goldie Hawn ) is a woman in her forties who apparently leads a fairy-tale existence . |
| 17 | The People 's Hotel is on a grand scale , and we drive in style to the Foreign Language Institute , where our course takes place , every day , in company with Comrade Gao ( Ministry of Education ) , Comrade Yu ( our local interpreter ) and Comrade Wu ( a lady in her forties who is accompanying us on the rest of our tour ) . |
| 18 | In her second , she was recklessly promiscuous , and in her third she met Charles . |
| 19 | Mrs Campbell was a schoolteacher in her fifties who suffered what many teachers fear . |
| 20 | Maisie was a plump woman in her fifties who always wore her dark hair in a bun at the back of her head . |
| 21 | In her fifties she began developing an elaborate theory-part religious , part mystical — on the natural supremacy of women and the need to return to a matriarchal society . |
| 22 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 23 | She says that it 's more comfortable and she can sit up in it , rather than slumping as she did in her old one . |
| 24 | And there was pain as well as pride in working right to the end , as did the 99-year-old Suffolk widow who ‘ worked on the land all her life ’ or the Derbyshire midwife in her eighties who still ‘ would get up in the night and walk miles to attend a confinement . ’ |
| 25 | She never tired of seeing a sunset or a flock of geese , and even in her nineties she still marvelled at the beauty of the sea or the quality of light in Dumfriesshire . |