Example sentences of "[num] she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | At three she woke with an uneasy feeling . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In 1923–4 she campaigned against the French invasion of the Ruhr . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | During 1795–6 she engaged in a one-sided correspondence with the radical William Godwin , who had taken over the role vacated by Eccles . |
8 | From 1897 till 1907 she taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
9 | 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 ’ ? |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |