Example sentences of "in [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 she was appointed by Frances Buss [ q.v. ] of the North London Collegiate School to teach mathematics . |
| 2 | After the third European Bridge Championships were held there in 1934 she turned professional . |
| 3 | In 1934 she was back in Cambridge to write and lecture . |
| 4 | Early in 1934 she suffered a stroke and died 10 January peacefully in her sleep . |
| 5 | In vain she had pleaded and begged him to use the train . |
| 6 | In vain she may cry , as Gregor Samsa does to his parents , sister and employer , that the same person is there inside , looking out in the same way at the world . |
| 7 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 8 | When she arrived in England in 1568 she claimed to be seeking the protection of her cousin Elizabeth , but at the same time began scheming for support in her claims to both thrones , having earlier told a priest that she ‘ trusted to find many friends when time did serve , especially among those of the old religion ’ . |
| 9 | Her initial training was in printmaking and her interest in social welfare in 1891 she moved to Berlin where her husband was a doctor in a poor area of the city combined in her great early cycle of six prints ‘ A Weaver 's Rebellion ’ ( completed 1898 ) . |
| 10 | In 1891 she moved to Ambleside and started the House of Education to prepare for the teaching and care of children . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1891 she was briefly engaged to Charles Morrison , a Scottish missionary teacher at Duke Town eighteen years her junior , but when the Mission Board refused to allow him to join her in Okoyong , the relationship was broken off . |
| 13 | After the death of her father in 1891 she withdrew entirely into private life , devoting herself almost obsessively to the care of her mother , even though the latter soon came out of retirement to become a royal lady-in-waiting . |
| 14 | In 1891 she married George Keppel , third son of William Coutts Keppel , seventh Earl of Albemarle [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | Only the grandmother seemed above it all , but in private she confided that the atmosphere of bickering recrimination made her feel sad and insecure . |
| 17 | ‘ Ithell Colquhoun thus spoke for future generations of women artists when in 1943 she stressed the need to escape from gender barriers . |
| 18 | For a few months in 1796 she and her mother joined her father in Sligo ; here she studied the Irish language . |
| 19 | In 1794 she began learning Arabic and Persian from her brother 's oriental dictionary ; in 1796 she studied Hebrew from a Bible belonging to Henrietta Bowdler 's mother . |
| 20 | In 1948 she joined the Department of Employment in the Ministry of Labour . |
| 21 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 22 | In 1948 she had opened almost identical telegrams . |
| 23 | In each she could happily have hopped off into the side-streets with their displays of over-priced gauds but Nils had insisted on timing things right . |
| 24 | in 1971 she was the first contemporary artist to have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery , curated by Bryan Robertson . |
| 25 | This was again a very painful operation in that she still suffered pain for many weeks thereafter . |
| 26 | A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview . |
| 27 | ‘ It is so very tragic and it really does tug at your heart to think of the state that her poor mother must be in that she feels she can no longer look after her child . ’ |
| 28 | in the house that she 's lived in that she 's in now all her life |
| 29 | In 1850 she discovered she had cancer of the uterus . |
| 30 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |