Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 2 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 3 | When the family moved to Wargrave Hill in Berkshire in 1868 she supervised every aspect of the renovations . |
| 4 | In an article in The English Review in 1913 she argued that the legislation had been carried by hysterical stories circulated by ‘ neuropaths and prudes ’ about the entrapment of white women . |
| 5 | For a few months in 1796 she and her mother joined her father in Sligo ; here she studied the Irish language . |
| 6 | Until her marriage in 1903 she worked in post offices in Buckinghamshire , Essex , and Hampshire . |
| 7 | On returning to Cape Town in 1938 she could remember many of the standard ballets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | When Elizabeth I visited Rochester in 1573 she was entertained by Watts , and when he expressed regret that he had not better accommodation to offer her she replied , ‘ Satis ’ ( Lat. ‘ enough , satisfactory ’ ) , by which name the house was ever afterwards known . |
| 11 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 12 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 13 | During a fleeting unrestricted period in 1985 she was named co-president of the United Democratic Front , the mainstream anti-apartheid organisation inside South Africa . |
| 14 | One day in 1868 she found a small tree pushing its way through a pile of discarded fruit . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | When the family moved to Althorp in 1975 she had the perfect auditorium . |
| 17 | When she left the Slade in 1914 she had many new friends . |
| 18 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 19 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | From the start of the movement in 1907 she held high office , and later served as president ( 1929–35 ) . |
| 22 | It was a prestigious event , attended by ministers and top delegates from all over Europe , and the speech delivered to the Prince 's office was straightforward and bland , essentially a pat on the back for Britain in all she was doing to keep the North Sea clean . |
| 23 | Since qualifying as a Medau teachers in 1968 she has taught regular classes for adults , children and the mentally handicapped . |
| 24 | Though she sees the sense in this she is reluctant to spill his address . |
| 25 | Shortly after her début into London society in 1863 she became engaged to Llewellyn Thomas of Llwynmadoc , the heir to a large coal fortune , but his early death from smallpox in 1864 on the eve of their wedding left her to face a lifetime of spinsterhood and good works , divided between Swansea and her London home in fashionable Knightsbridge . |
| 26 | On graduation in 1899 she entered the Imperial Ballet , bypassing the corps de ballet and rising through the ranks to ballerina in 1905 and prima ballerina a year later . |
| 27 | This was again a very painful operation in that she still suffered pain for many weeks thereafter . |
| 28 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | Until they moved to Coniston in 1801 she did not have a settled home , spending much of her time visiting friends in London , Shirley , and Bath . |
| 30 | After a short illness in 1909 she died . |