Example sentences of "in this [noun sg] she " in BNC.

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1 She threatened them , she menaced them , and one day in this vein she would marry one of them .
2 And in this state she gallops night by night
3 In this state she had a vision of Jesus , about whom she knew nothing .
4 ‘ She was partly dismantled with flat tyres and covered in dust and junk , but she fascinated me and even in this state she looked elegant ’ .
5 Evidently in this case she has benefited , although that is left unstated .
6 In this case she went back to her third birthday .
7 She had not spoken so elaborately for some time , and Betty knew the warning signs ; so , whereas with anyone else she would have appealed to their better nature , in this case she held her tongue .
8 In this case she guessed correctly . ’
9 In this dream she had been locked into the school library with an exam paper containing one question and one only : Compare and contrast narrative method in Proust and Tom Jones .
10 In this dream she was outside herself , yet watching a person who must be herself strangling an adolescent boy .
11 The last time she played in this competition she suffered a disastrous defeat and is keen to make amends .
12 Still , in this poem she is examining a condition into which she would enter by seeking patrons for her verse .
13 As the wife of the civic leader , Mrs Murphy had to do considerable entertaining in generous western style , but in this field she made no attempt to keep pace with Olga Stych or Donna Frizzell ; she knew when she was beaten .
14 Her first detective novel , The Man in the Queue , a highly accomplished piece of a work for a novice hand , was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot — the name by which she preferred to be known , in both public and private — though for her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey .
15 But even in this tumult she felt that Mark was the sane , controlled life-guard , trying to calm her .
16 In this landscape she seems , despite the onlookers , completely lost .
17 For the first time since she 'd appeared she said his name , tentatively , as though in this darkness she 'd suddenly doubted he was real .
18 He had to remind himself that when she was in this mood she was a mistress of the single , agonized word , the mutely suffering glance .
19 In this sense she is not a libertarian .
20 She did what she thought was right and in this country she said a price .
21 And in her final words to Wilekin in this exchange she manages to give an ambiguous hint that she may be prepared to entertain Wilekin — along with her husband : ( " You could go home , dear brother .
22 In this way she lived to be a hundred years old , more or less .
23 In this way she indicates the intellectual vitality and the social significance of medicine in the period .
24 But by crossing direct in this way she could more than halve the time to the keeper 's cottage , and this might mean that the keeper could get to the West Wood in time to capture the deer-stealers before they drove away .
25 In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two .
26 ‘ I instruct my daughter out of concern for her safety that until such time as she raises children she should make no will : in this way she will be able to live without danger . ’
27 If the therapist had approached the problem in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from both the patient and her parents and thereby becoming largely ineffective .
28 In this way she can judge when some children are ready to join a group game , enabling her to present them with some small problem that will help to lead them one step further in their mathematical thinking .
29 In this way she would be following the rules about enthusiastic praise of the specified behaviour .
30 In this way she developed her instinctive talent as a fashion editor ; she could instantly take a detail from this and an idea from that , while keeping well within her overall style .
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