Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] when she " in BNC.
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1 | She began travelling in earnest in 1927 when she was thirty-four ; later she crossed Persia , her long hair flowing , because she felt marginally safer from attack if bandits could see that she was a woman . |
2 | Jimmy last met the Queen in 1979 when she presented him with the OBE. |
3 | Stuart made her international breakthrough in 1985 when she took the European junior 200 metres silver medal behind Kerstin Behrendt , who was named earlier this week as one of the athletes involved in a state-run drug-administering programme in what was East Germany . |
4 | Queen Isabella , wife of Edward II , intervened more directly in political matters in 1314 when she petitioned her father , Philip the Fair , to remedy outstanding grievances relating to Aquitaine . |
5 | Schiffer began her extraordinary rise to fame in 1988 when she was just seventeen . |
6 | PAMELA COUNTESS OF ONSLOW , who has died aged 76 , became a celebrity in 1973 when she emerged as a key figure in the ‘ Littlejohn Affair ’ — one of the more curious spy stories of recent years . |
7 | Jan Moynan , 50 , joined London Transport in 1974 when she was bringing up her children and wanted shift work that would leave her free after school hours . |
8 | Although the figure of the earth-mother pales in time ( receiving a last fitful refulgence in the West in 1950 when she was proclaimed bodily assumed into heaven by Pope Pius XII ) , she nevertheless remained a permanent part of the polytheistic pantheons which evolved first of all during the Neolithic period . |
9 | In England Sheila Brayford from Staffordshire died from brain damage in 1981 when she absorbed about 100 times the normal level of aluminium in dialysis . |
10 | Sadly , she died of a brain haemorrhage in 1950 when she was scarcely in her twenties . |
11 | Vivien Rendall was introduced to Medau in 1966 when she joined Wynne Norris 's class in Upton Chester ; on moving south she was able to attend classes in St Albans and Hemel Hempstead , and since 1984 , Gerrards Cross . |
12 | Pauline Kenward , the Society 's Chairman , who comes from Reigate first became interested in Medau in 1968 when she joined Margaret Charlwood 's class ; from there she went on to train and qualified as a teacher in 1974 . |
13 | The patient first attended the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1985 when she was 21 years old , worked as a clerk , and smoked eight cigarettes per day . |
14 | Mr Littlehales said the girl was taken into care in 1983 when she was two . |
15 | Roy Hollingworth , a discus thrower from Trinidad , and Clive Long from Guyana gained international athletics honours in the 1960s , though it was a Jamaican , Marilyn Fay Neufville , who , over the period , rose to prominence in athletics , eventually gaining the Commonwealth Games gold medal and , simultaneously , the world 's 400 metre record ( 51 seconds ) in Edinburgh in 1970 when she was 18 years old . |
16 | She set a new women 's record for the Twostar in 1986 when she came 2nd in class with Kitty Hampton in Sony Handicam ( ex Ntombifuti ) and in 1987 completed the AZAB in Quixote . |
17 | Nick met Rachel in 1984 when she was a sixth former at Liverpool 's Quarry Bank comprehensive . |
18 | Mrs Mabel Rotherham ( Mabel Stevens ) moved to Ferry House in 1898 when she was 9 months old . |
19 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
20 | She recorded her impressions of Dovercourt in 1941 when she was still only fourteen . |