Example sentences of "in her [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes she would hear some commandment being spoken —' Give not that which is holy unto the dogs ’ — and others echoed in her head until it ached .
2 She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality .
3 She rarely thought about Ireland now — she had deliberately suppressed it , and usually it was only in her dreams that it rose unbidden to haunt her .
4 People passed by without a glance in her direction and it was as though she had suddenly become invisible .
5 Esther refused to think in these terms , and insisted that she would be able to manage in her home as it was .
6 She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand , knowing in her heart that it was an excuse to curtail the physical contact with him .
7 With a great effort she immersed herself in her work and it was n't until Myra put her head round the door that she realised how quickly the time had gone .
8 She 'd often been accused of impersonality in her work and it was the criticism that stung her most .
9 She was in her bed and it felt about two o'clock in the morning .
10 Bedu translated the Classes into French and English , but was so explicit in her demonstrations that it was not always necessary .
11 Robbie sat up , wide awake , but the dream was as vivid in her memory as it had been while she was experiencing it .
12 She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework .
13 Out of the two authors , I prefer Harper Lee 's style of writing because she is much more fluent in her writing and it contains energy , happiness , sadness , and really imaginative descriptions .
14 There is no doubt in her mind that it has all been worthwhile .
15 He was taking an unholy delight in her discomfiture and it was high time that he was taken down a peg .
16 ‘ She 's got a bottle in her dressing-room and it 's almost empty .
17 No member of the family has to give up work before the allowance can be claimed and this extra income can sometimes enable a caring daughter to continue in her job if it is used to pay for help at home .
18 That 's why Tina does n't like people smoking in her house because it gets into her bedroom .
19 She has hung ‘ Christabel ’ in her bedroom where it catches the morning sun and shows up my imperfections .
20 The Queen noted in her journal that it would all have been much better had she had chloroform , which had been used by Victoria 's physicians in similar circumstances .
21 If I were you I 'd drop a quiet word in her ear before it 's too late .
22 She needed to weep , but there was a pain in her throat and it was stopping the tears , so she laughed instead .
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