Example sentences of "in late [noun] she " in BNC.

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1 For Jean Henderson , who entered the trade in the 1890s , it was perhaps , her daughter thinks , the orphanage with its " feminist " matron that urged her to take up what in later life she felt to be an intellectual calling .
2 In later life she suffered much from ill health , and lived largely in retirement .
3 Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward .
4 In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way .
5 A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London .
6 In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 .
7 ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said .
8 In later years she went to Leeds and married a minister .
9 In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis .
10 His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children .
11 In later years she suffered severely from asthma .
12 Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care .
13 It transpired that Hannah was well capable of coping with this sudden celebrity status , displaying a curiously ingenuous confidence as in later months she met people ranging from royalty to hard-nosed journalists , and completely disarmed them all .
14 Now she has moved on again — in late October she took up a new appointment in Rotherham .
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