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Example sentences of "in her [adj] way " in BNC.

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1	Adding in her honest way : ‘ I did n't make it . ’
2	In her unsentimental way she loved children , though no one was better aware of their knavish tricks .
3	‘ Indeed he is not , ’ Feargal 's mother protested in her gentle way .
4	Fournier , having greeted Flavia , led her forward , his wife called out in her sharp way , ‘ They have met . ’
5	‘ I hope you 'll be at the funeral , ’ said Viola in her grand way , as if it were her show and there 'd be cocktails afterwards .
6	Mummy , in her capricious way ,
7	As we said the ‘ Hail Mary ’ , she joined her hands and prayed in her simple way with her Dad as she does her night prayers .
8	’ No kids , no heavy relationships , no sweat , ’ she says in her blunt way , curled up like an imp , smoking like a chimney , in one of her mother 's immaculate armchairs , a vision of bleached cropped hair , bright pink baggy cotton trousers , black eyes heavily rimmed with mascara .
9	These people [ the Brazilian Indians ] are wild [ sauvage ] in the same way as we say that fruits are wild , when nature has produced them by herself in her ordinary way … they are still very close to their original simplicity … they are still governed by natural laws and very little corrupted by our own " .1
10	Grandma was always nice to me in her vague way .
11	She put a hand on his , in her usual way of announcing herself , and he covered it with his own .
12	Her companion did the same , but the Sheikha in her usual way lifted her veil and with a graceful inward movement of her wrist held the pot under her arm , first one side then the other , her neck arching above the rising smoke .
13	Lady Diana Cooper ( then in her eighty-eighth year ) who attended the event , said in her inimitable way : ‘ Was n't that a mighty feast to set before a King ! ’
14	‘ I an no admirer of President Reagan , ’ she said in her precise way .
15	‘ Thank you , ’ Charlotte said in her self-contained way .
16	In her silent way , she had committed herself entirely to a life for art 's sake .
17	She scolded him then , in her cheerful way that she knew he did n't mind .
18	‘ I do n't want to stop work , ’ said Susie in her quiet way .
19	In her reactionary way — for Lili had been brought up by an independent , feminist mother — she thought it all right for men to carry suitcases but not bags of washing .
20	‘ The phone is over there , Chris , and I suggest you try to reach Toby now , ’ she said in her determined way .
21	‘ I thought she loved me , in her funny way .
22	In her funny way , Great-Aunt Alicia had decided to tie Sara and Matthew Preston together in joint ownership of a house , hoping this would somehow lead to the bond of matrimony .
23	Annunziata nodded her head gravely and held open the door for Julia , who returned to the court wondering how much else Annunziata had seen and understood in her unobtrusive way .
24	She came and kissed him in her brisk way .
25	Mrs Woolf must , indeed , have used onions in the famous boeuf en daube , but neither she nor Miss Bowen nor Miss Compton-Burnett ever admits to having smelt one — though in her different way each of them conveys that the whole of domestic life ( of which onions are a part ) is her province .
26	’ Nonsense , ’ Irina would snap in her forthright way .
27	I thank my hon. Friend for advancing , in her characteristic way , the case of women who wish to return to the labour market .
28	Salt was making a meal of Jess 's shortcomings and Nancy stared at the new kitchen wench while her mother nodded in her easy-going way as she took off her shawl and recaptured her dropping hairpins .
29	In her paradoxical way , the anorexic is facing up to the truth implicit in her own convictions .
30	She had imagined , in her ingenuous way that when she married it would be a combination of that quayside romance with the close sexual intensity she had known with Martin Dickenson in the cabin .