Example sentences of "in her [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Liddy whispered in her mistress 's ear . |
| 2 | In Her Master 's Voice ( Penguin , £8.99 ) by social critic Tama Starr is a witty demolition of the female inferiority theory . |
| 3 | And for that we owe you our thanks , ’ acknowledged Matilda , unwittingly turning the knife in her listener 's heart . |
| 4 | Jill looked startled at the note of animosity in her friend 's voice . |
| 5 | The note of quiet desperation in her friend 's voice drew Lindsey 's gaze to Jill 's flushed face , causing her own smile to fade . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes — from Italy , ’ Rosemary replied , and Leith could clearly hear a smile in her friend 's voice as though it had cheered her so much to hear Travis . |
| 7 | ‘ Is there a problem ? ’ she added , seeing the anxiety in her friend 's face . |
| 8 | Scarlet felt that there was some flaw in her friend 's argument but was unable precisely to pinpoint it . |
| 9 | Sarah 's interest in her friend 's brother was far more vague . |
| 10 | Melissa gave a mischievous grimace as she suddenly remembered the disapproving gleam in her friend 's eye on learning where she was spending the evening and , possibly , the night . |
| 11 | It was certainly hard to see much in her parents ' relationship ; it seemed to Caro now a sad empty thing . |
| 12 | There , I learned , the churchyard was closed to burials , although her ashes might be interred — not in her parents ' grave as I had asked — but in the church 's garden of remembrance . |
| 13 | Part of her motivation in caring for her younger brothers and sister was the wish to earn a special place in her parents ' affection . |
| 14 | So she stayed in her parents ' home during the winter , helping to look after the children , making clothes for them and earning a little money whenever she could . |
| 15 | Rose 's Uncle Eustace , who lived upstairs in her parents ' home when she was a girl , was , incidentally , a staunch Methodist . |
| 16 | Kate knew that the wound was still as raw and bleeding in her parents ' mind as her own . |
| 17 | The bodies of Neesha Patel , nine , and her brother , Pritesh , seven , were found together in the back bedroom and their sister Neha , eight months , in a cot in her parents ' room . |
| 18 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
| 19 | ‘ Fine , ’ Rosemary replied , but when , unusually , she appeared to have nothing else she wanted to chat about , yet did not ring off , Leith did a swift two-and-two calculation , and the answer she got told her that Rosemary wanted , in her parents ' absence , to talk about Travis . |
| 20 | It was much more useful to spend Saturday morning in her parents ' house , in Park Lane , planning future articles . |
| 21 | Young Sarah stayed on in her parents ' house behind the hill , only one of a number of poor people in that humble street . |
| 22 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 23 | But Pete did stay around , and they live together in her parents ' house with their nine-month-old baby . |
| 24 | She established herself firmly in her parents ' house once again , with the addition of her daughter , and decided that , as she did not appear at her very best when moving due to her injury , she would remain on a sofa all the time . |
| 25 | Shirley Eaton looked fetching in her nurse 's uniform and a young probationer nurse was laying the tracks for a totally new profession for herself as the overemotional wallflower among the blossoming beauties of the hospital . |
| 26 | That day she had wandered off between leaving her mother 's kitchen and arriving in her grandmother 's sitting-room . |
| 27 | Why only the other day Little Red Riding Hood barely escaped with her life after finding a transvestite wolf hiding in her grandmother 's bed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Yet if this had taken place in her grandmother 's room , he would have found plenty of bottles there , a cupboard-full , going back for two or three years . |
| 30 | She sat in her grandmother 's chair with Mo on her lap . |