Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced sharply at him , and although his expression remained inscrutable she had the fleeting impression that his reasons involved a woman . |
| 2 | It would be humiliating if he ever guessed exactly how she felt about him , how much she envied the other woman . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 5 | With that she slammed the old Austin into gear , then almost as quickly put it back into neutral . |
| 6 | After that she pushed the older woman from her mind while concentrating upon several small tasks , and at mid morning she took a break to follow the covered path leading towards the chalets . |
| 7 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 8 | In 1984 she won the prestigious City of London painting prize . |
| 9 | In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service . |
| 10 | When the family moved to Althorp in 1975 she had the perfect auditorium . |
| 11 | She was waiting , she says , until she was sure she had the right project with the right people . |
| 12 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 13 | In May 1952 she obtained the superb patterns of the B form which now grace the textbooks , and which J. D. Watson saw early in 1953 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 16 | In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett . |
| 17 | And now small and neat she overrode the big man behind his own — undoubtedly genuine eighteenth-century — desk as he opened his mouth to reply . |
| 18 | At first she found the pitch-black darkness of the Motabeng night terrifying . |
| 19 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 20 | In 1871 she married the American journalist and painter William James Stillman , widower , former husband of Laura Macks , and father of two daughters and a son , who died in 1874 . |
| 21 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 22 | In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya . |
| 23 | On Feb. 28 she joined the Supreme Council 's economic commission , although there were suggestions that she intended to stand in opposition to the administration of President Vytautas Landsbergis . |
| 24 | In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron . |
| 25 | However , in 1926 she had the largest show of her lifetime , at the New Chenil Galleries , London , and received considerable attention . |
| 26 | When the path forked into two she took the wrong one . |
| 27 | At last she found the right room . |
| 28 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 29 | In January 1645 she taunted the Presbyterian polemicist a second time in A New-Yeares-Gift … to Mr. Thomas Edwards . |
| 30 | In 1906 she joined the militant Women 's Social and Political Union , and became editor of Votes for Women in 1912 . |