Example sentences of "in her [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I believe Walker is basically well-intentioned in her portrayal of women despite these appropriations of the patriarchal perspective . |
| 2 | Her real power lay in her knowledge of others , her awareness of the weakness of men , the destructive weight of a well-timed laugh . |
| 3 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 4 | Or else she is so indifferent to the feelings of other people that she simply shrugs her well-fleshed shoulders and does n't give a damn who she hurts in her pursuit of thrills . |
| 5 | Damn the man , he had no place in her scheme of things . |
| 6 | One can not accuse Anita Debska of being lightweight or whimsical in her choice of topics . |
| 7 | John-William insisting on having everything just so , Amabel herself taking time and immense delight in her choice of furnishings , living a dozen delightful dramas every day over Aubusson rugs and inlaid cabinets , the recklessness of silk damask on newly plastered walls , the sheer extravagances of crystal and china which Linnet — the dear child — had encouraged her to commit . |
| 8 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 9 | It is an independence of mind reflected in her choice of films as well . |
| 10 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 11 | All the same , Melanie folded the letter and kept it among the knickers and handkerchiefs in her chest of drawers , as a kind of talisman , to remind her the past was real . |
| 12 | Breeze had often wondered whether , in her heart of hearts , Gay was dreading leaving Pinehurst . |
| 13 | In her heart of hearts Celia knew that she had n't really come to terms with her condition at all , but she could n't say so point-blank to Alison . |
| 14 | But I think she knew in her heart of hearts that he was already dead . ’ |
| 15 | In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap . |
| 16 | Believing in her heart of hearts that Nancy would soften towards her and the child once it arrived and made a niche in her heart . |
| 17 | In her heart of hearts she still suspected that it was , but the charmed garden of Sebastian and his friends opened to her so easily , so seductively , that what could she do but step inside ? |
| 18 | Mrs Jihan was waiting outside the examination room , knowing in her heart of hearts that her husband has departed . |
| 19 | No matter what he and Bernice had been through , she knew in her heart of hearts that his guilt over what he had done to Ace on Heaven — and before — was a weakness : a button which would always work to throw him off balance when pressed . |
| 20 | She was keeping her promise to herself , but in her heart of hearts Tess knew that eventually she would accept him . |
| 21 | And in her heart of hearts she knew that the sight of him , the sound of his voice , would demolish the wall she was trying to build to separate the present from the past . |
| 22 | Even though she knew in her heart of hearts that this could never last , she felt as though she 'd reached a safe harbour after sailing in a vast , unfriendly sea . |
| 23 | She knew it was going to hurt like crazy giving up her chances of ever catching a glimpse of Naylor again , but she knew in her heart of hearts that the action she was taking was the only one possible . |
| 24 | In her heart of hearts she had blamed Paul for his unrelenting pressure , but it was her own weakness , her failure to stand up to him , that was responsible for the situation . |
| 25 | In her heart of hearts she had wondered if she might be frigid . |
| 26 | Even though she knew perfectly well in her heart of hearts that it was ridiculous , she could n't help but feel faintly aggrieved . |
| 27 | For example , a male is rarely limited reproductively by his capacity to produce sperm but a female is restricted in her output of eggs . |
| 28 | safe in her battery of arms |
| 29 | Bad time-keeping in general was high in her canon of sins but not as heinous as bad time-keeping in the particular : spoiling her dinner . |
| 30 | Acker ( 1981 ) , in her review of articles published on the sociology of education between 1960 and 1979 , showed that , whereas 37 per cent of those reporting on empirical research had used all-male samples , only 5 per cent had used all-female samples . |