Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this she used a bent knitting needle with a cork to protect her hand . |
| 2 | In 1877 she opened a small chapel in her house in Cottenham Park . |
| 3 | In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband . |
| 4 | In 1979 she made a new will ; after making changes to some specific bequests , she again appointed her husband to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 5 | As such she became a public personage , open to public comment . |
| 6 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 7 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
| 8 | She was glad she had a busy weekend in front of her , and little time to brood . |
| 9 | In August 1975 she produced a consultative document which was regarded by the medical profession at large — although socialist supporters in that profession did not share the view — as a declaration of war . |
| 10 | Naomi , she was arriving back penniless she had a foreign daughter-in-law , that in itself was proof enough that she had strayed from God 's will . |
| 11 | She never missed writing to her parents though , and the family made sure she had a regular supply of correspondence and gifts . |
| 12 | Good God , she was only fourteen she had a deeper voice than |
| 13 | In 1902 she had a much-publicized exchange of views with Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree [ q.v. ] on the extent and causes of primary poverty . |
| 14 | From 1913 she held a two-year research fellowship at Newnham , while continuing to teach at King 's . |
| 15 | In short she obtained a remarkable degree of autonomy . |
| 16 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
| 17 | At first she showed a marked aversion to the godliness and simplicity of life in Kidderminster . |
| 18 | Yeah she had a big she had a big coat |
| 19 | In particular she won a great deal of sympathy last January when she appeared on national television with Bill Clinton as he faced allegations of extra-marital dalliance with a singer . |
| 20 | In 1989 she raised a 250-name petition to get toilets built in the car park where drivers pay £2.50 to park for the night . |
| 21 | One day in 1868 she found a small tree pushing its way through a pile of discarded fruit . |
| 22 | At eighteen she opened a small school in Kentish Town with her mother , who was committed to Pestalozzi 's reforming ideas . |
| 23 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 24 | But at last she gave a tiny nod . |
| 25 | So long as she stayed silent she had a secret weapon . |
| 26 | Next she got a blood-pressure cuff , with its attached meter , and took a quick reading , to find that , as she had feared , Faye 's blood-pressure was significantly higher than it should be . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | During that decade of major war , Britain 's near-monopoly of factory industry was sustained , and after 1815 she entered a new era of economic history in which the mutual influences of industrialisation and trade expansion could work freely , and in which , as Professor Thomas has expressed it , " trade was the child of industry " . |
| 29 | When the table was ready she filled a deep pan with water and put it on the cooker , her movements slow and simpering in contrast to those of her mother , who quickly poured olive oil into a big black frying-pan , threw in the artichokes , covered them and rinsed her hands and arms before drawing a chair up to one of the cauldrons and sliding into the curd up to her elbows . |