Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] in her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of flowers she could n't name , she 'd seen them in her grandmother 's garden , in her mother 's garden , in neglected gardens all over . |
| 2 | She said she 'd seen it in her window . |
| 3 | Already she could visualise the lay-out — ‘ The Other Side of Fashion ’ she 'd entitled it in her mind 's eye when she 'd discussed it with Nick . |
| 4 | Her father had bedecked her in her deceased mother 's jewels . |
| 5 | Not a gentle kiss , nor yet as punishing as the last one he had given her in her room , but it was urgent and demanding and was all the encouragement she needed . |
| 6 | The plan — a simple one — was for the Tongue to be stolen immediately after Laura had installed herself in her room at The Randolph . |
| 7 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 8 | He had seen nothing in her lifestyle and her actions which led him to believe that she was then or wished again to become a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 9 | He had seen it in her eyes . |
| 10 | She had done everything in her power to force him back and now knew quite clearly and definitely that she did n't want him . |
| 11 | Christine half-turned then , and glanced at the room as if some ironic comment had presented itself in her mind ; but instead she said , ‘ Anyone can do anything . |
| 12 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 13 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |
| 14 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 15 | More than that , she had an instinct for tactical manoeuvring which had helped her in her chosen profession , and which had served her well up till now . |
| 16 | Maria had worn them in her hair at her wedding . |
| 17 | Buffy the pug was dead long ago ; between them the family had replaced him in her affections . |
| 18 | She had , apparently , spent little of the money on herself , had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved , had remembered them in her will , but without egregious generosity , and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation , admonition or peculiar protestations of affection , although he had no doubt that the words ‘ my dearly beloved nephew ’ meant exactly what they said . |
| 19 | Her success in this enterprise had fortified her in her career as psychotherapist , had given her confidence in her right to pursue it , in the rightness of her pursuing it . |
| 20 | She recognised , however , that beneath Tamar 's apparently circumspect exterior still lurked the reckless and tempestuous streak that had characterised her in her youth . |
| 21 | She had risen from her bed , slipped on her dressing-robe , and lighting her bedside candle with the tinderbox on the table , she had taken it in her hand and gone into Lady Merchiston 's chamber . |
| 22 | Harriet had put them in her smaller guest-room which had a double bed . |
| 23 | The one sentence that had pleased me in her unfastidious and not very delicate letter was the last of all — that simple ‘ Write care of Ann . ’ |
| 24 | She had reached the landing by this stage of her deliberations , remarking , as she did so , that the fitted carpet , which had covered them in her own time , had gone . |
| 25 | As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be . |
| 26 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 27 | ‘ Tarts ’ was how she had described them in her own mind . |