Example sentences of "[num] she [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early years of her reign Elizabeth was faced with an urgent crisis on her northern border , and in 1562–4 she pursued an expensive adventure into France . |
| 2 | In '86/'87 she underwent an extensive refit which improved the yacht both aesthetically and functionally . |
| 3 | At thirteen she had an extensive collection of Esther Williams photos in glamorous swimsuits and the most advanced information available about what to do with boys . |
| 4 | In 1877 she opened a small chapel in her house in Cottenham Park . |
| 5 | In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the twenty eight of September nineteen eighty eight she had a major operation on her left wrist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1902 she had a much-publicized exchange of views with Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree [ q.v. ] on the extent and causes of primary poverty . |
| 10 | From 1913 she held a two-year research fellowship at Newnham , while continuing to teach at King 's . |
| 11 | In January 1976 she had an arranged marriage to a cousin Aszal who had settled in Britain and on October 20 that year the couple arrived in Britain . |
| 12 | In 1977 she published an autobiographical sketch entitled ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ in which she posits her authorial identity as a separate person whom she calls ‘ John ’ . |
| 13 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One day in 1868 she found a small tree pushing its way through a pile of discarded fruit . |
| 16 | At eighteen she opened a small school in Kentish Town with her mother , who was committed to Pestalozzi 's reforming ideas . |
| 17 | In 1919 she received an honorary MA from Manchester University for her work in archaeology . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | During the visit the Queen also went to Texas and Florida , where on May 20 she conferred an honorary knighthood on Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf , commander of the allied forces in the Gulf war , for his " distinguished leadership " . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 " . |