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

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1 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 .
2 Maybe she had tried , but in her sixties she had slumped into forgetfulness .
3 In her twenties she acted with her husband Jacob Kalich 's Yiddish rep company in Boston , before touring Europe .
4 In her second , she was recklessly promiscuous , and in her third she met Charles .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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