Example sentences of "in her [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny gave a convulsive sob and lay back in her pillows again . |
| 2 | Yeah but she does well in her exams so |
| 3 | Ca n't see what she sees in her cousins though can you ? |
| 4 | You have never seen a woman in her peignoir before ? ’ |
| 5 | Stray images wandered into her unfocussed mind : the glossy black heads of seals breaking the sea 's surface , the castle with knights riding out — She could make pictures of the Lock in her head again ! |
| 6 | ‘ I 've — er — seen quite a bit of him since I met him when he called for you that time , ’ Leith managed , the ever-present ‘ if you value your job ’ threat there in her head again . |
| 7 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 8 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 9 | The now familiar palpitating flutter in her heart made itself felt and the blood drummed unpleasantly in her head so that she feared she might lose her senses . |
| 10 | The American boy apologized haltingly in French as he knelt to return the shivering pet to her , but once the animal was safely in her arms again she turned and fled shyly back to her father 's side without speaking . |
| 11 | She kisses me softly on the forehead and wraps me in her arms so securely I 'm reminded of my mother . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , sí , sí , ’ Ruth agreed , totally enraptured by the child who was sleeping in her arms so peacefully . |
| 13 | I pointed out that when we last met she seemed to be becoming more political in her attitude almost before our eyes . |
| 14 | It was the first bathroom she had ever had to herself , and sharing with three younger brothers — she had found tadpoles in her toothglass once — had its share of perils . |
| 15 | Jenny put her head in her pillow again . |
| 16 | No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards , Sinitta and David split up and she signed a major recording deal which culminated in her single So Macho reaching number two in the charts , only missing the top spot because of Chris De Burgh 's Lady in Red . |
| 18 | Then she added , with a plea in her voice again , ‘ You get around , Ben . |
| 19 | I do n't want to leave , I mean , — there was a break in her voice now — ‘ I do n't want to go away . |
| 20 | There was a cold fury in her voice now . |
| 21 | ‘ The Time Travellers took one of them , ’ said Dierdriu , and it seemed to Fergus that an old , never-quite-healed agony was in her voice now . |
| 22 | She seemed calm and peaceful , and a few minutes in her presence soon cheered Mr Wolski up . |
| 23 | The grandchildren always bathed in her kitchen rather than at home , and she ‘ looked after our heads ’ for lice , while after the bath the blind grandfather ‘ used to tickle our backs with stick in front of fire . ’ |
| 24 | She felt she could partially excuse his megalomaniac meddlings in her genes now that she knew he was mentally unstable . |
| 25 | She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another |
| 26 | She may find it difficult not to regard you still as the child who would do her bidding without question ; and you have to learn to see her , not just as your mother , but as a ‘ person ’ too , with good and bad traits in her character just like everyone else — not expecting silver-haired sainthood from her simply because she gave birth to you . |
| 27 | The dark eyes slanted in her direction briefly and then looked away . |
| 28 | ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre . |
| 29 | His head jerked up in her direction then went back to studying the ground . |
| 30 | His dark eyes flickered briefly in her direction then he set his mouth in grim lines . |