Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Until her marriage in 1903 she worked in post offices in Buckinghamshire , Essex , and Hampshire . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One day in 1868 she found a small tree pushing its way through a pile of discarded fruit . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | From the start of the movement in 1907 she held high office , and later served as president ( 1929–35 ) . |
| 13 | Though she sees the sense in this she is reluctant to spill his address . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was again a very painful operation in that she still suffered pain for many weeks thereafter . |
| 17 | After a short illness in 1909 she died . |
| 18 | Following a serious illness in 1744 she came to regard herself as sinful . |
| 19 | Flavia said bravely , ‘ She looks for virtue in those she loves . |
| 20 | The same is found in the young woman , who inspires trust in those she meets . |
| 21 | On holiday in 1922 she disappeared , climbing alone near Chamonix . |
| 22 | When she left school in 1927 she had n't gone into the sheds . |
| 23 | She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey . |
| 24 | On Forman 's death in 1611 she approached Gresham through her confidante Anne Turner [ q.v. ] , and he employed his skill in efforts to render the earl impotent and to win the queen 's goodwill . |
| 25 | Following her husband 's death in 1976 she served on the politburo from 1978 to 1985 , and remained an influential voice within the CCP even after her formal retirement from public life in 1988 . |
| 26 | Her husband did , however , receive in 1604 a lucrative patent for the weighing of hay and straw , but on his death in 1616 she surrendered the patent to an enterprising brother-in-law , Innocent Lanier . |
| 27 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |
| 28 | After her husband 's death in 1947 she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation , which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association , of which she became honorary life vice-president . |
| 29 | She had a warm , affectionate nature , but she was a professional in all she did ; her work , worship , relaxation , appearance , home . |
| 30 | Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends . |