Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 2 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 3 | After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field . |
| 4 | In 1891 she taught at a finishing school in Hanover for six months and , after her return to England , at a school in Finsbury Park . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At three she woke with an uneasy feeling . |
| 7 | She ate so many she looked like a prickly pincushion . |
| 8 | In 1884 she enrolled as a special student at Finsbury Technical College under the tutelage of William Edmund Ayrton [ q.v. ] , professor of applied physics and one of the pioneers of higher technical education . |
| 9 | In 1923–4 she campaigned against the French invasion of the Ruhr . |
| 10 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 11 | During 1795–6 she engaged in a one-sided correspondence with the radical William Godwin , who had taken over the role vacated by Eccles . |
| 12 | First she posed as a Roman centurion and did a bit of torture . |
| 13 | From 1897 till 1907 she taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 14 | Remember how she said ‘ duck ’ at ten months , then remained totally silent — until at the age of two she said in a conversational tone , ‘ What a big fat duck , give it a bit of bread ’ ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But at last she came to a painful decision . |
| 18 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 19 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 20 | At last she queried in a calm voice , ‘ What 's the matter with you , Doreen ? |