Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her commitment to women 's causes continued for the rest of her life , and when female suffrage was granted in 1918 she was one of the first women to contest a parliamentary seat , standing unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Rusholme in 1918 . |
| 2 | Since one of her implants ruptured in 1989 she has been disfigured and still has headaches and joint pain . |
| 3 | After James was born in 1983 she intended to return after maternity leave fairly quickly , but at the time Edelman 's was in the process of changing — two senior partners had died , and two others had gone into industry . |
| 4 | Born in 1880 she died in 1968 . |
| 5 | After her husband died in 1878 she moved to Stillyans , in East Sussex , where she also had a garden , but thereafter most of her entertaining was done in London . |
| 6 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 7 | Anne had four brothers , three of whom died young , and when the youngest brother Jeremy died in 1813 she inherited Shibden Hall ( now a folk museum ) , Halifax , and went to live there in 1815 with her aunt and uncle . |
| 8 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 9 | In an interview she gave in 1974 she explained that the goal of her fiction was to re-activate the language of conceptual knowledge through metaphor : |
| 10 | in the house that she 's lived in that she 's in now all her life |
| 11 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |