Example sentences of "[noun pl] in her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The behaviour of Violet Needham 's young characters and the patterns and manners in her books make them period pieces nowadays ; her prim , earnest , winning girls and ardent , courteous boys are as alien to our times as Marco Lorestan is . |
| 2 | She did n't think he would actually throw back his covers in her presence , but it was n't a risk she was about to take . |
| 3 | Angie was running the hamburger stall — I do n't think she has ever cooked so many hamburgers in her life . |
| 4 | Whimpering softly , she tried to break away , but his grasp merely tightened on her shoulders , firing warning signals in her brain . |
| 5 | If you can find a gnarled peasant woman making shabby artefacts from twigs , point your readers in her direction . |
| 6 | She loved the waves in her hair , but hated the untold billions of gallons of water down below . |
| 7 | On the third morning he saw Zora-djevojka , the Dawn Maiden , the Sun 's beloved daughter , coming swiftly over the waves in her silver boat . |
| 8 | So she sank beneath the waves in her silver boat , and the fisherman rowed home . |
| 9 | She was opposed to toleration of Protestants and Jews in her dominions . |
| 10 | My Sister was at Sandy , but up to her eyes in her work with the Maquis . |
| 11 | With a happy smile on her extraordinarily beautiful face , and the memory of a man with blue eyes in her mind , she wandered back to where she had left her car , and Ellie being Ellie , who was totally incapable off passing anything that looked even remotely interesting , it was another hour before she finally got to it . |
| 12 | This time it was Tessa , holding her pyjamas in her hand and wearing nothing but the tweed overcoat pulled tightly around her . |
| 13 | Ruth Baird continues to teach a strong Edinburgh class but as a result of her unplanned and completely unsponsored double somersault down a highland waterfall , Muriel Jessop had to have an operation to deal with a torn cartilage and frayed ligaments in her knee . |
| 14 | That something was weighing on his mind was only too evident , and she quite forgot her own worries in her concern for him . |
| 15 | Dimly she heard the pounding of her own pulses in her ears . |
| 16 | Always an independent spirit , Rita nevertheless acknowledges certain strong influences in her movement career — Edith , Molly , Rita Horton , and in Coburg , Jutta Holler-von der Trenck ; she believes that her feeling for the importance of expression in movement , and her interest in the choreographing of taped music derive from her contact with Christa Haring , whose classes in Contemporary Dramatic Dance she attended . |
| 17 | In the early 650s , however , Oswiu 's son , Ealhfrith , married Penda 's daughter , Cyneburh , after which Penda 's son , Peada , now ruler of the Middle Angles , requested in marriage Oswiu 's daughter , Ealhflaed , and received missionaries in her company , being urged to accept Christianity not least by his recently acquired brother-in-law , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 21 ) . |
| 18 | The Duchess of Beaufort is also mentioned as having additional rare sorts in her garden at Badminton . |
| 19 | She dressed trimly for work ; neat white blouse , tight black skirt , bright seventeen-year-old eyes : no ladders in her tights now she was settled and happy . |
| 20 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 21 | With a sinking heart , Mildred moved miserably through all the chores of the first day , unpacking robes , arranging the new books in her desk , feeding the cat , and innumerable small tasks till at last it was bedtime . |
| 22 | Is there two books in her hand ? |
| 23 | Is there two books in her hand ? |
| 24 | She published a total of sixteen books in her career , of which ten were Gothic novels . |
| 25 | He was repulsed by the scramble of images in her mind . |
| 26 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There are still tons of things I want to do and this is the sort of place I 'd love to have , ’ says Kylie , walking to one of her favourite shops in her home country . |
| 28 | ‘ And Quatermass Queen , the one with the tentacle-arms and snakes in her hair , she starts strangling this monster , the fiery-eyed one that 's just speared the Muscly Monk with his laser-beam fingertips … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You bellowed , sir ? ’ she enquired tartly , ignoring the dread that coiled like snakes in her stomach . |
| 30 | While Dorothy was making the first entries in her journal that new year Coleridge continued to write poetry with undiminished fluency , both at Stowey and Alfoxden . |