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 . |