Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She glanced sharply at him , and although his expression remained inscrutable she had the fleeting impression that his reasons involved a woman .
2 It would be humiliating if he ever guessed exactly how she felt about him , how much she envied the other woman .
3 Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends .
4 Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored .
5 After that she pushed the older woman from her mind while concentrating upon several small tasks , and at mid morning she took a break to follow the covered path leading towards the chalets .
6 When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted .
7 In 1984 she won the prestigious City of London painting prize .
8 In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service .
9 When the family moved to Althorp in 1975 she had the perfect auditorium .
10 She was waiting , she says , until she was sure she had the right project with the right people .
11 In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives .
12 On graduation in 1899 she entered the Imperial Ballet , bypassing the corps de ballet and rising through the ranks to ballerina in 1905 and prima ballerina a year later .
13 In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks .
14 And now small and neat she overrode the big man behind his own — undoubtedly genuine eighteenth-century — desk as he opened his mouth to reply .
15 At first she found the pitch-black darkness of the Motabeng night terrifying .
16 In 1871 she married the American journalist and painter William James Stillman , widower , former husband of Laura Macks , and father of two daughters and a son , who died in 1874 .
17 In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya .
18 On Feb. 28 she joined the Supreme Council 's economic commission , although there were suggestions that she intended to stand in opposition to the administration of President Vytautas Landsbergis .
19 In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron .
20 However , in 1926 she had the largest show of her lifetime , at the New Chenil Galleries , London , and received considerable attention .
21 At last she found the right room .
22 In January 1645 she taunted the Presbyterian polemicist a second time in A New-Yeares-Gift … to Mr. Thomas Edwards .
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