Example sentences of "in her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Carson 's father has a prosperous cotton business in Manchester , ’ Mrs Carson said one day in her friendly manner . |
| 2 | ‘ Imagine me , the wicked Baroness ! ’ says Susan Cecilia Wilberforce Dale de Stempel incredulously , sitting up very straight in her hard-backed prison chair . |
| 3 | When moving dancers from two feet to one in both open and closed sissonnes , the choreographer can make the movements dart over the floor as Aurora does in her final solo in The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 4 | It is essential that Mrs G Lomas be kept informed of our deliberations , so that she can incorporate any revision of the Science Plan in her final document . |
| 5 | Not only was she sports captain she was also elected head girl in her final year at school , voted there by the pupils and the staff . |
| 6 | She prospered at GSA nevertheless , coming out with the second highest marks in her final year , which should have given her a valuable travelling scholarship . |
| 7 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 8 | Note how Caroline 's long line in her final version enacts her meaning : going down and down , ‘ no end … |
| 9 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 10 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 11 | In this exhibition she explores the relationships between music and the visual arts by translating four moments representing the four seasons from the score of Purcell 's The Fairy Queen in her distinctive use of line and colour ( until 15 March ) . |
| 12 | In this exhibition she explores the relationship between music and the visual arts by translating four moments representing the four seasons from the score of Purcell 's The Fairy Queen in her distinctive use of line and colour ( until 15 March ) . |
| 13 | Ai n't got a blonde hair in her bloody head , no it 's all grey |
| 14 | This book is about Britain 's Defence policy in her post-imperial era , and is the sequel to my Withdrawal from Empire , published in 1986 , in which I looked through military eyes at the creation , development and eventual transformation of the Empire into the loosely-knit British Commonwealth . |
| 15 | She was shivering in her dark fur coat . |
| 16 | The book 's old-fashioned typeface , cramped and black , was as distinctive as Victorine herself in her dark dress and blue check overall , rapt lady clown with a glistening face and deft wrists . |
| 17 | He looks at her and he can see — in her dark hair , her quite high forehead , her wide , generously made mouth ( oiled and glistening ) , her intensely brown eyes — Claudia . |
| 18 | Now the young woman , as tidy and trim in her dark uniform as Alice in hers jeans and bomber jacket came slowly towards her , an annoyed , decided little face showing that words were being chosen to put Alice in her place . |
| 19 | ‘ You look tired , dear , ’ said Doris Smythe when she had hobbled up to her door and let Linda in before carefully locking it again once Linda was standing in her dark hallway . |
| 20 | Sitting in her dark comer , Marie said nothing . |
| 21 | Purpose hard in her , she staggered back to the flat sheet of the blueness that was spread to catch the warmth of the sun and in her frozen hand was a knife sharpened by erosion from a rock . |
| 22 | Perhaps only barely by then , until she managed to get something behind her , the reserve , the " something put by for a rainy day " which neither she nor anyone else in her hand-to-mouth world could ever quite hold together . |
| 23 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 24 | Adding in her honest way : ‘ I did n't make it . ’ |
| 25 | His new girl-friend was also examined and nothing abnormal was found , although she did say that there had been some increase in her vaginal discharge for some months . |
| 26 | She could not , must not fail in her self-appointed task so soon after beginning it . |
| 27 | They became a wild goose chase after an obsession of Heather 's very own , which , all else apart , cast doubt on Zohra 's confidence in her mental stability . |
| 28 | Deterioration in her mental status and renal function occurred , and on 31 May she died , three months after the onset of her illness . |
| 29 | She did n't think about it , but in her mental geography , the vivid world consisted of herself and her father at the centre ; Thomas and Leo , a short distance away ; then a little further , the Princesse and Violette and Portia whom she still corresponded with regularly . |
| 30 | Pundits who believed the Falklands factor played a crucial part in her 1983 victory were astounded by the size of the third straight Conservative victory , five years after victory in the South Atlantic . |