Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1979 she moved into the 50,000 apartment and immediately set to work furnishing the rooms in a warm but simple Habitat style . |
| 2 | After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field . |
| 3 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 4 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 5 | In 1923–4 she campaigned against the French invasion of the Ruhr . |
| 6 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |
| 7 | From 1897 till 1907 she taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 8 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 9 | A wedge approach to three feet produced an eagle three at the ninth , while her solitary lapse was the four she made at the short 16th . |