Example sentences of "in her [noun pl] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was already under stress , in her ambitions and her wish to please her mother with her success . |
| 2 | She should have stayed with him , told him she wanted to understand , held him in her arms while he released the terrible pain she had sensed inside him . |
| 3 | THE FIANCEE of murdered British tourist Keith Thompson cradled him in her arms as he lay dying and kept saying : ‘ I love you , Keith , please breathe , ’ it was revealed last night . |
| 4 | The last moments of Johnathan Ball , the three-year-old victim of the bombing , were described yesterday by a nurse who cradled him in her arms as he died . |
| 5 | Neighbours said she had Christopher in her arms as she tried to open the first-floor window . |
| 6 | Mother Francis felt an urge to take the child in her arms as she used to do when Eve was a baby given into their care by the accident of her birth . |
| 7 | Then she held Demian in her arms and they danced together until they dissolved into one another in the storm . |
| 8 | Marilla held her in her arms and they sobbed together . |
| 9 | A MOTHER leapt from a second-floor window with her son aged three in her arms and her daughter aged six . |
| 10 | Her three-month-old daughter Elma was in her arms and her son Adnan , five , clung to her skirt . |
| 11 | Elizabeth , watching , felt an unexpected sympathy for her , remembering how she had felt herself , with baby Alan in her arms and him not even hers . |
| 12 | He placed it in her arms and she clutched it to her bosom , with her handbag , the toe of her right foot gingerly touching ground . |
| 13 | Carrie had already gathered up the baby 's toiletries in her arms and she left the room without answering him . |
| 14 | Finn put Victoria in her arms and she sighed and cuddled the baby with the convulsive , unpractised hug of a woman who , against her desire , has had no children . |
| 15 | The kitten was cradled in her arms and she ran her fingers gently up and down its stomach so that it purred with delight . |
| 16 | I have no strong views on the trousseau , but I wish they 'd show that famous snap again , the one where she 's holding the kid in her arms and you can see right through her dress . |
| 17 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
| 18 | She is the formal head of the Executive and it is , nominally , in her courts that her justice is administered . |
| 19 | She had had enough of Army discipline and did not share the sense of commitment she had found so attractive in her parents when she was younger . |
| 20 | A number of shops and boutiques had shown an interest in her clothes but she still had to produce them , innovative yet saleable , not too expensive for the market but of a good quality . |
| 21 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 22 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 23 | She herself had campaigned for women 's rights with the suffragette movement when she was in her teens and he had listened to her tales of the marches and the abuse the women suffered at the hands of many people . |
| 24 | She was so absorbed in her thoughts that she did n't hear the taxi pull up outside at all , nor the opening and closing of the kitchen door . |
| 25 | Her soft leather shoes made little sound on the stone steps and she was so lost in her thoughts that she did n't hear other footsteps coming as rapidly towards her . |
| 26 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 27 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 30 | But she would have those things for ever ; she would have them in her head , in her memories and her dreams , and no one could take that away from her . |