Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 2 | On her return to Broadway Miss Picon played a string of leads — all in Yiddish — at Kessler 's Theatre , and won such acclaim that while still in her early thirties she was top of the bill at the Palace , America 's leading vaudeville house , and had a New York theatre named after her . |
| 3 | In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches . |
| 4 | In the early 1970s she met Derek Bryceson , director of Tanzania 's national parks . |
| 5 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 6 | Now in her early fifties she may find her age an advantage for the stability , maturity and experience she could bring to the position . |
| 7 | As well as being pretty — tall , with auburn hair cut very short and smooth and classical features — she was keen and interested in her work , and when we were extra busy she would pitch in and help without being asked . |
| 8 | Yeah , one of them 's I think she was in her early eighties she , they put on a Christmas party and she sang . |
| 9 | By the early 1730s she had made friends among an aristocratic circle which included the Lovelace , Clayton , and Bowyer families . |
| 10 | Sometime in the early 1730s she encountered the poems of the thresher Stephen Duck [ q.v. ] , which she learned by heart . |
| 11 | In the early 1920s she published a series of three guide-lines for the removal of what she termed as ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ literature from local libraries . |
| 12 | In the early 1920s she campaigned for widows ' pensions . |
| 13 | On one occasion in the early 1880s she was persuaded to address male students at Edinburgh University medical school . |
| 14 | The king 's eldest daughter , Isabella , long remained unmarried but in the early 1360s she met and fell in love with Enguerrand de Coucy , a French nobleman who came to England in 1360 as a hostage for the payment of John II 's ransom . |
| 15 | In the early 1960s she played a part in saving Brownsea Island from development : the island is now owned by the National Trust , and the Dorset Trust for Nature Conservation manages part as a nature reserve Helen Brotherton is the current Chairman of the latter organisation and , as well as serving on the National Trust 's Council , Appointments Panel and Conservation Panel , she was Chairman of the Wessex Regional Committee for a number of years . |
| 16 | In early 1656 she secured a considerable degree of influence over James Nayler [ q.v. ] , whose works were published first by Calvert and then by Thomas Simmonds . |
| 17 | University of Zambia , and in the early 1980s she received a scholarship under WACC 's Training Assistance Programme to advance her communication studies in Manila , Philippines . |
| 18 | Again , in the early 1980s she was to support Gerardo Iglesias against Carrillo when change became inevitable [ see p. 32014 ] . |
| 19 | she 's bloody obvious she is . |
| 20 | Left alone she was so docile that she ignored Frankie completely , but in the company of the ferocious Rosie she , too , became a dangerous animal . |
| 21 | For the cash-happy Eighties she absconded to 57th Street . |
| 22 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 23 | 23 She 'd be right-handed if she had hands ; she 's right-footed or right-sided. 24 She approaches and does most things from the right side . |
| 24 | Guessing what might greet her in the canteen , she opted for sandwiches in the laboratory , but because today no one else on the team was prepared to forgo his lunch-hour proper she was on her own until she was interrupted . |
| 25 | In the late 1870s she founded and organized a discussion group for women , the Somerville Club , which , when it opened in 1880 , had 1,000 members . |
| 26 | And I missed that in the seventies and eighties , and my wife said you know you 're mad , towards the late eighties she told me off , she said you 're mad , you 'll spend your life looking for something that you 've already got , for god 's sake just concentrate on what you r are , you 're an actor , do that , perform . |
| 27 | By the late 1880s she had become a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft [ q.v. ] , who wrote to Joshua on 9 December 1790 : ‘ I fear her situation is still very uncomfortable . |
| 28 | Mid to mi mid to late sixties she bought her house and just this is their second house and , you know , that 's all the mortgage was . |
| 29 | Dawa confessed , at the time of her arrest , to giving the flag to the monk and in late 1990 she reportedly received a three-year term of ‘ re-education through labour ’ . |
| 30 | Certain drafts of The Cocktail Party , for example , are marked with Mary Trevelyan 's handwritten alterations " as dictated by T. S. E. " From the late Forties she kept a diary of their friendship , and in this it is possible to see how bewildering Eliot could appear , even to those who knew him best . |