Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] she " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At this point the manuscript containing her biography is cut short , but we know from other sources that a priory for her was built at Markyate in 1145 , and that in 1155 she sent gifts of embroidery to Pope Adrian IV . |
| 2 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 3 | The War of the Spanish Succession and the financial strain it involved reduced France 's strength at sea to a very low ebb , so that in 1719 she possessed only 49 ships of all rates . |
| 4 | In 1895 she left the mission to found the Esperance Working Girls ' Club with Mary Neal , and in 1897 she founded the Maison Esperance , a co-operative dressmaking business . |
| 5 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 6 | In 1960 she joined the Sunday Express in London , where her news experience and personality quickly singled her out and in 1962 she was appointed the paper 's chief American correspondent , choosing to cross the Atlantic by Cunarder . |
| 7 | Anti-German feeling in World War I caused Louise Matthaei to leave the academic world in 1916 and in 1918 she became assistant editor to Leonard Woolf [ q.v. ] on the International Review . |
| 8 | She became one of the notable personalities of the House of Commons , and in 1952 she was the first woman MP to be suspended from a sitting . |
| 9 | In 1924 she was promoted to chief of that section and in 1935 she published Labour in Agriculture , an International Survey . |
| 10 | In 1909 she became editor of the Charity Organisation Review , and in 1914 she published a history of the previous half-century of charitable work in London , Social Work in London 1869–1912 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , she was devoted to her more unconventional father , who agreed that she should go to art school , and in 1910 she became a student under Henry Tonks [ q.v. ] at the Slade School of Art . |
| 13 | herself short and in short she ai n't free When |
| 14 | In 1853 Mrs Reid gave hospitality to Harriet Beecher Stowe , who had come to England to speak about slavery at private gatherings of women , and in 1860 she shared her home with Sarah Redmond , the first black woman to undertake a public lecture tour in Britain on the slavery question , who later studied at Bedford College . |
| 15 | She does want to be ‘ one of the gang ’ and to be admitted to the fortress den and in this she is successful . |
| 16 | In 1984 she came third in class in the Yachting Monthly Triangle and in 1985 she came second in class in the Round Britain Race , taking part in Ann Frazer 's Contessa 32 Gollywobbler . |
| 17 | By 1908 China had a draft constitution and in 1912 she was a republic . |
| 18 | Aloysia made her debut in Vienna the same year , and in 1780 she married the court actor and painter Joseph Lange . |
| 19 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 20 | Only the grandmother seemed above it all , but in private she confided that the atmosphere of bickering recrimination made her feel sad and insecure . |
| 21 | But in particular she recalls the time she first saw Kylie . |
| 22 | But in 1556 she instituted a devastating new scheme , a perpetual tax . |
| 23 | May be she did not do as well in the major championships as in previous years but in 1990 she still managed to win one Australian , get in to the final of the French and the US Opens , and the semi final of Wimbledon . |
| 24 | Before that , she worked as a secretary , but in 1972 she was really tired of a secretary 's life . |
| 25 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 26 | ‘ Ithell Colquhoun thus spoke for future generations of women artists when in 1943 she stressed the need to escape from gender barriers . |
| 27 | Dudley spent some seven years of obscurity until Elizabeth 1 once again forgave him , when in 1585 she decided to support the Dutch against the Spanish , and placed Dudley in command . |
| 28 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |
| 29 | Eugénie always held Biarritz in special affection and it was a source of great pleasure to her when in 1880 she managed to recover the furniture from the Villa which she installed in her house in Farnborough . |